Pentium comes from the Greek for five "pente"
However "pentium" is a trademark name and now means the 5th generation of chips.
If you remember one of the first 386, 486 computers then i586 is renamed to pentium.
That's why you will not see pentium on the new chips such as Intel's Atom or Core.
More info at wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org
However "pentium" is a trademark name and now means the 5th generation of chips.
If you remember one of the first 386, 486 computers then i586 is renamed to pentium.
That's why you will not see pentium on the new chips such as Intel's Atom or Core.
More info at wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org
