Penryn, California is a small town about 20miles north of Folsom, California where Intel chip designers came up with the blueprints for Intel's 45nm processors. The new processor family, code-named Penryn, follows a naming convention Intel has used for several years where design teams adopt local geographic, or in this case, local city names. While 'Penryn' will soon give way to official Intel product names, the town lives on.