ARM Cortex is dead! Long live Niva, Lumex, Zena, Orbis, ...

[KingOfPain]

YAIR (Yet Another Idiotic Renaming): ARM is killing the Cortex name and replaces it as follows:

• Neoverse for server (the only name that is not new)
• Niva for PCs (former Cortex-X?)
• Lumex for mobile (former Cortex-A?)
• Zena for automotive (former Cortex-R?)
• Orbis for IoT (former Cortex-M?)

The Arm Evolution: From IP to Platform for the AI Era

To better communicate Arm's platforms to the outside world, new product naming architecture is being introduced.

newsroom.arm.com

We'll see if that makes sense or if ARM just shot themselves in their own foot.
Normally, changing the name of an established brand is not a good idea.

 

[Cmaier]

I had a yeast infection one time, and the doctor prescribed Lumex. Lumex is contraindicated for patients with spleens.

 

[KingOfPain]

Someone in another forum said that Niva was a model of the Lada car brand.

Lada Niva - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

EDIT:
(Niva) is a Russian word that literally means "(corn) field", but also "area of practice"

 

[casperes1996]

I didn’t particularly like the naming before. But it’s worse now I think

 

[KingOfPain]

With the previous naming scheme they really wanted it to spell A-R-M, but that distinction was still mostly logical (Application, Realtime, eMbedded).
When they needed something more performant than "A", they went for "X".
With few exeptions, double-digits typcially referred to 64-bit variants, then they went to triple-digits and things got confusing.

But now with the names and qualifiers it's even worse. The following is pure guesswork!
A Cortex-M0+ might be called Orbis Pico Pro in the future...

 

[jbailey]

YAIR (Yet Another Idiotic Renaming): ARM is killing the Cortex name and replaces it as follows:

• Neoverse for server (the only name that is not new)
• Niva for PCs (former Cortex-X?)
• Lumex for mobile (former Cortex-A?)
• Zena for automotive (former Cortex-R?)
• Orbis for IoT (former Cortex-M?)

The Arm Evolution: From IP to Platform for the AI Era

To better communicate Arm's platforms to the outside world, new product naming architecture is being introduced.

newsroom.arm.com

We'll see if that makes sense or if ARM just shot themselves in their own foot.
Normally, changing the name of an established brand is not a good idea.

A friend had a startup named Orbis.

 

[casperes1996]

A friend had a startup named Orbis.

The PS4 OS was (codenamed?) Orbis