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andrewfyesterday at 7:20 AM3 repliesview on HN

>"it affects Blizzard Creek and Windy Bluff models'

"Products formerly Blizzard Creek"

WTF does that even mean?


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7beesyesterday at 7:26 AM

Intel doesn't like to officially use codenames for products once they have shipped, but those codenames are used widely to delineate different families (even by them!), so they compromise with the awkward "products formerly x" wording. Have done for a long time.

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baqyesterday at 7:58 AM

Product lines are in design and development for years, two years is lightning fast, code names can be found for things five or more years before they were released, so everyone who works with them knows them better (much better) than the retail names.

numpad0yesterday at 9:22 AM

It means Intel M14 and M15 base designs. Except they don't use numbers.