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Sure. Car manufacturers do not reinvent terms for marketing. They all agree on the same term always.

Exactly. Mercedes calls theirs "4MATIC", which might make you think it's 4WD, but nope, it's AWD.

(Technically the full name for it is "4MATIC AWD", but no one actually calls it that.)

Without looking up etymologies of these terms, I have no inclination that one of them is older than the other.

Is hyperthreading and Simultaneous multithreading the same thing? Is Smart Access Memory the same as resizable base address register(reBAR)?