Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Here is the cpu info of a more recent quad core Intel. processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3220 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 7 This model is 10 cpu designs ahead, but still part of the i686 family, of course these 10 designs do not show the separate Pentium/Xeon/Pro tree lineages. I think they gave up giving the steppings nick names a long long time ago.
indeed, "Xeon" further confuses things, this is simply a brand name for a 'Server' CPU. There have been Xeon's that were Pentium-III based, then Pentium-4 based, and now new ones like that are Core2Duo based.
and, further confusing things, the Pentium-4 variants weren't really P6 core based, they had a completely different internal architecture known as NetBurst, but Intel decided not to give it a seperate family designation for who-knows-what reason. The newest "Core" based CPUs are in fact derived from the Pentium-M laptop processor, which in turn was based on a redesign of the P6 (Pentium-III) guts, discarding the Netburst architecture.
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