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Linux 6.12 Finishing The Transition For Moving Intel CPUs Past The "Family 6" Era


As written about early in the year, future Intel CPUs will be moving past the 'Family 6' identification used since the mid-1990s with the P6 micro-architecture

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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