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Does anyone know where Intel's codenames come from? They're... supremely weird.

"Ivy Bridge" and "Skylake" evoke images of fantastical locations—chasms transversal only by green bridges woven of ivy, or serene bodies of water that float among the clouds. "Willow Cove" is similarly suggestive, if somewhat more mundane.

But, Tiger Lake? Coffee Lake? SuperFin? Is there a formula here?

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> "We have a formal process for what types of things are lakes vs. bays vs. peaks," Tripp told us. However, he didn't elaborate on what that process was. "Different components are named after different geographic areas."

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/decoding-intel-code-names

Just about every product since 2015 has been a lake. I'd guess "lake" is the code word for "just overclock last year's chip and call it a day"

The CPUs have been lakes. Their memory and storage division uses stream, pass and -dale. Server chipsets are -burg, Ethernet controllers are -ville. All of these suffixes are still in active use for new or upcoming products.

Yeah, each subsequent "lake" was just "Skylake, maybe with a few uArch tweaks, and on a more-optimized 14nm node, and/or sold pre-overclocked as high as we can make them run."

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