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Curufinwe

Adding insult to injury

To add insult to injury, the chip isn't even named after the Cornish town. It's named after a rural locale in the Sierra foothils of California.

http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2007/04/penryn.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penryn,_California