Intel "Family 6" CPU Era Coming To An End Soon: Code Suggests Cooper Forest & Adams Lake

[CommunityMember]

Intel is slowly running out of models in family 6 (models are 8 bits, so 256 models total, even if some of them never shipped or are otherwise reserved). A new family is needed.

[Sonadow]

It's just a CPUID, nothing is going to change.

[user556]

Intel is slowly running out of models in family 6 (models are 8 bits, so 256 models total, even if some of them never shipped or are otherwise reserved). A new family is needed.

It's just a CPUID, nothing is going to change.

That's what I was expecting to read in the article itself.

[Doug]

Itanium is family 7 and pentium 4 is family 15, so I dont know what special support linux needs to support different families than 6

[Phoronos]

And Skylake doesnt see any progress ???

[cyring]

T'il the other Manufacturers are covered by patches. If they will to! Or some at kernel will inherit the heavy job.