I think the reason Intel is getting flak for this is the fact that their processors were named perfectly fine. Why change the naming scheme? This is simply going to confuse consumers. AMD had to change their naming scheme to keep up with Intel's speed war. Yes, AMD does have a confusing name scheme, but we're not faulting Intel for that -- we're faulting them for moving to a confusing naming scheme when they had one that works perfectly fine.
I don't really fault Intel at all for changing the names of their processors, I simply stated that it's about to get way more confusing. Oh well, that gives me another reason to read up on hardware reviews all day long!
-Lasereth