Why is this megacorp using this famous person's name for marketing? Does the 40XX series have anything to do with Ada Lovelace at all?
(Yes I know Ada Lovelace passed away a long time ago so the name is probably free to use without paying her estate.)
https://www.denverpost.com/2013/06/01/intels-newest-processo...
> Until the mid-1990s, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel internally named its processors after cartoons, dead musicians and other well-known monikers. Attorneys for the late rocker Frank Zappa helped put an end to that practice after reaching out to the company about a potential trademark violation, said Intel spokesman Bill Calder. The legal team for the world’s largest computer-chip maker subsequently ordered that any new product code names be based on “existing, non-trademarked places in North America that can be found on a map,” Calder said.
> After struggling to find a suitable or available name in Oregon, where much of the chip design team is based, he stumbled upon Haswell in his ZIP code database.
> “I didn’t know anything about Haswell other than that it’s a good name,” Hampsten said. “Another reason I liked it, it had a suffix — well — which I could use for various other names.”
This does mark a departure from a convention of only single surnames, and one could surmise as to why that decision was made. Though one might also consult a Falsehoods list, since 'Ada Lovelace' was never $first_name $last_name to begin with, having been derived from something like /(Augusta Ada|Ada Augusta) King \(née Byron\), Countess of Lovelace/
Even whole companies are named after famous people that have nothing to do with the company (Tesla, Faraday Future, etc)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_(microarchitecture)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius_(microarchitecture)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_(microarchitecture)