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Naples, Rome, Milan, Genoa, and Turin are just cities in Italy; I'm not sure what's childish about that. They have to use something for codenames.

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The criticism is about "EPYC" not about the codenames. That brand name has been used since 2017 but if you don't know that, it sounds quite gamery nowadays.

Admittedly I also have no idea why Intel calls theirs Xeon, which sounds like misspelled xenon. But then it might be a proper Greek word?

Trademarks are easier if they are not words (no prior use or conflicts), but having them be like words is easier so people can say them.

> The criticism is about "EPYC" not about the codenames.

The criticism above says "Turin, Epyc and lord knows what else". That clearly includes the codenames.

Whats wrong with an arbitary 16 digit number?

I'm sure each of the products has a numeric identifier. One can use that if they feel pressed by the "childish" names.

5318008

AMD CPUs have pretty small numbers for that, e.g. 100-000000651 or 100-000000789. They almost look wrong with so many zeroes. Zen/+/2 parts have part numbers like YD160XBCM6IAE (which is similar to the part numbers of much older AMD CPUs, which is apparently the AMD Ordering Part Number, OPN, scheme, and every digit codes information about the CPU). Zen 3 started with the new scheme, which just seem to be sequential development numbers. E.g. 3800X is 100-000000022. Here's a list: https://mkdev.info/?p=1245

They left enough leading zeros in there to make room for future revisions until the death of the universe.

Just use scientific notation. :-)

They're hard to understand and memorize.

The marketing departments of monitor manufacturers still haven't figured this one out yet.

Ah, I was unsure if it was named after the city or the [Tolkien character](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BArin_Turambar).

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