The last canonical example of Intel refreshing their naming convention was with their Xeon line up which is now utterly incomprehensible, at a glance you used to be able to understand what was going on;

EX-YZZZ vA

E3 - Rebranded Desktop Class parts with ECC support

E5 - High-Desktop & Regular Multi-Processor Server parts

E7 - High-End Multi-Processor Server

Y - Denotes Socket Support. ZZZ - Denotes a model number, indicating from low to high increases in features, cores and/or clock speed. vA - Denotes Generation.

Xeon E5-2980v2 - is a high-core count server processor for use in dual socket servers, belonging to the Ivy Bridge Generation of parts.

The new naming "convention" is as follows - from a glance can you identify any information from this;

Xeon Bronze 3204

Xeon Silver 4214R

Xeon Gold 6212U

Xeon Gold 6342

Xeon Platinum 8280

Xeon Platinum 8380

Xeon W-2295

Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum - are so unclear as to be meaningless - there are dual socket Silver processors more capable than some Gold processors. W prefixed parts are Workstation parts. The First Digit bears no connection to anything (except in the platinum series where it denotes 8 socket capability), perhaps PCI-E Lanes? The Second digit apparently denotes generation. The Suffix denotes that it's only capable of running in a single processor configuration - except when it doesn't.

Ohh, and the 'E3-**** v*' convention still stands for desktop rebranded parts.

It's a complete mess.