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be careful with trademark from ARM, they already have R5 and R7 cpus, I'm not sure about R8

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The C.H.I.P. guys (and maybe Allwinner themselves) use R8 as a CPU name:

https://getchip.com/ http://linux-sunxi.org/Allwinner_SoC_Family#.22R.22-Series

They do have an R8 core, but they don't have a trademark on that part of the name[1], they just have one for Cortex. However, the name should probably be changed for removing confusion anyways, because Renesas has an R8C series of CISC microcontrollers [2]. The namespace around single letter and then a number processor model is real crowded.

[1] https://www.arm.com/about/trademarks/arm-trademark-list/

[2] https://www.renesas.com/en-us/products/microcontrollers-micr...

There is the Audi R8 sports car, but I guess this is unrelated enough?

Clearly the day Audi is threatened by a processor they need to quit building cars.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were auto manufacturers that build processors for vehicle control units completely in-house.

Most are made by specialist companies, think Bosch, Steyr (sp?) and Delphi.

It's ok. As long as this doesn't have AWD it will branch well.

Audi builds bulldozers ?

AMD does...

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Can use same name for a different product catigory. Same catogory -> somebody gonna geta hurt

Unless it is relaterade to apple(s).

Intel discovered to their cost that you can't trademark a number (hence 80486->pentium). Don't know if one letter is enough :-)

Nobody can trademark the name "Windows" as applied to actual windows. And I'm free to create a trademarked chain of "Windows" restaurants. But I can't call my operating system "Windows" and I'm on thin ice calling any other sort of computer program "Windows."

Allwinner has an R8 IoT SoC based on the A13.

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