[throw0101a]

Sure, but how are the names chosen?

If Ubuntu et al it is alphabetical order, and you can generally tell the timeline of releases. But how can one really tell what the current product from Intel is, and what came before, and what are the upcoming releases?

It's not like they're going through Oregon lakes in some kind of order, or are they? By discovery, by size/volume, other?

[barkingcat]

As in most code names there is no order, if you want an order, maybe in terms of favourite to least favourite parks/lakes of the Intel staff.

What you are looking for are monotonically increasing version numbers, which code names are definitely not.

If you are looking for details about generations of chips, https://ark.intel.com/ is your friend.

[throw0101a]

> What you are looking for are monotonically increasing version numbers, which code names are definitely not.

They are not, but given that Intel seems to put them in their public information / marketing material, it seems like the "codenames" are being used as version numbers. If they were strictly internal-to-Intel I could see that POV, but that doesn't seem to be happening.

And the Intel's model numbers / SKUs also seem to be created from a random number generator. :)

[barkingcat]

What's wrong with having names that are public that doesn't match with a version number?

Like you said, even model/sku numbers are mostly random. Why the expectation of a monotonically increasing version number if intel has almost never done it before?

[msla]

> Why the expectation of a monotonically increasing version number if intel has almost never done it before?

"Almost never" except for 8086/80286/80386/80486, you mean.

But who remembers those obscurities?

[throw0101a]

Pentium 2/3/4:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium

[msla]

And the "Pentium" itself, arguably, being a "penta-" name coming after the 80486.

But the Pentium broke the numbering scheme to an extent, with the Pentium Pro wedged between the Pentium and Pentium II.

[throw0101a]

> What's wrong with having names that are public that doesn't match with a version number?

Depends if you want to reduce confusion amongst yours customers. Or if you want to put up a smoke screen.

Imagine if instead of the iPhone 8/9/10 or OnePlus 6/7/8 there was the iPhone Xavier/John/Fred: how would people know what they're buying?

[derefr]

I think you might be able to connect the releases on a literal (driving) roadmap.

That’s also sort of how Microsoft did their codenames in the late 90s/early 2000s, when they were all places you could reach in a few hour’s drive from Redmond.