Nehalem. The word Nehalem is of Indian origin. One attributed meaning is "place where people live." The prefix "Ne", used frequently in Indian names of northwestern Oregon, meant a place or locality. The name "Nehalem" applies to a town, river, and bay at the north end of Tillamook County.
Who is Nehalem?
The 1st-generation microarchitecture in Intel's Core family of CPU chips, starting with the Core i7 in 2008. Major features of Nehalem chips (named after Nehalem, Oregon) are integrated memory and PCI Express controllers and a graphics processing unit (GPU) in the same chip package as the CPU.
What does the name Tillamook mean?
It was first described and classified by Horatio Hale in the Publications of the Wilkes Expedition. The name Tillamook, by which the tribe is best known, is of Chinook origin. It means the people of Nekelim (pronounced Ne-elim) . The latter name means the place Elim, or, in the Cathlamet dialect, the place Kelim.
