Chip behemoth Intel has chosen a 'proper' name for its upcoming range of chips codenamed Nehalem.

As is all-to-often the case these days, the company has gone for a dreadful monicker with a daft - and, dare we suggest, rather old fashioned - lower case 'i'. Now where could they have got that idea from, we wonder?

Anyway, it now looks like we're lumbered with changing 'Intel Core i7' to 'Intel Core I7' for the foreseeable future, as the IT Examiner flatly refuses to perpetuate stupid marketing iDeas such as puTtiNg daft capitals in words.

When will they ever learn?

Anyway, Intel will formally announce the hopeless name next Monday. The first Nehalem is due to hit the streets later this year in the shape of the $999 Bloomfield Core I7 Extreme Edition. X

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