Naming Schemes

[PierreCCesario]

Hi! What's Excavator, Piledriver, and Bulldozer? What is Zen, Vishera, etc. How about Broadwell, Haswell, and Skylake?

Thanks

[minibois]

Hi! What's Excavator, Piledriver, and Bulldozer? What is Zen, Vishera, etc. How about Broadwell, Haswell, and Skylake?

Thanks

The series of AMD CPU's (Excavator, Piledriver, Bulldozer, Zen and Vishera) and Intel CPU's (Broadwell, Haswell, and Skylake)

Zen and Skylake are the upcoming ones and the other ones are released already.

I might be able to find a article to link you to

 

EDIT:

Intel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_CPU_microarchitectures

AMD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_CPU_microarchitectures

[CynicalSalmon]

Excavator - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excavator_%28microarchitecture%29

Piledriver - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piledriver_(microarchitecture)

Bulldozer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer_(microarchitecture)

 

Zen - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Zen

Vishera - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer_(microarchitecture)

 

Broadwell - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwell_%28microarchitecture%29

Haswell - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)

Skylake - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)

 

They're all different microarchitecture for CPUs.

[LogicalDrm]

If you are asking reasons behind names, there's really none. They are just project names that are used in development.