Of New Horizons and Zen: The Story of the Name "Ryzen" for AMD's New Processors

[cdawall]

What will probably never be explained in public by AMD, is the numbers. 7, 5 and 3.

"Oh, yes we wanted to copy Intel naming hopping that people with no clue in computer hardware will not understand the difference between a Core i7 and a Ryzen 7".

Anyway, in the end the name is as good as the benchmarks.

They should have gone with 9, 7 and 3 then, nothing better than comparing yourself at another level up from intel