Obscure, of course

Rico says he had to look up the definition of Nehalem, the name for the new family of Intel processors, just because it sounded so strange. Fearing it was some Biblical reference, he was pleased to discover that it's merely a small (no, small; only 120 houses) town in Oregon. The family of processors it's replacing, the Penryn family, at least had a nice Celtic ring to it...