Intel Next-Gen CPU Cores & Families Unearthed: Douglas Cove For Adams Lake & Sheldonmont For Cooper Forest

Intel has some new cores in town and two new CPU families as revealed in the latest Linux Code patches which have unearthed the Adams Lake "Client" and Cooper Forest "Server" chips.

Intel Adams Lake With Douglas Cove Cores & Cooper Forest With Sheldonmont Cores Could Be Next-Gen CPUs For Client & Server Platforms

In an attempt to clear up its "Family 6" CPU naming scheme, Intel might have exposed its two next-gen CPU cores and families, reports Phoronix. It is reported that Intel's "Family 6" CPU is coming to an end. The Family 6 CPU ID has been running since the P6 architecture which was featured in the Pentium Pro lineup in the 90's and that's about to change soon as Intel has sent out patches that'll be used to modify the CPU family ID identification and model naming criteria.

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In doing so, Intel has revealed what could be its next-generation CPU cores & CPU families which might be featured under the new CPU family ID. These new families include Adams Lake and Cooper Forest. Both families have also been defined with a new core architecture. Adams Lake is said to feature the new Douglas Cove P-Core architecture while Cooper Forest is said to feature the new Sheldonmont E-Core architecture.

It is currently unclear which CPU families will Adams Lake and Cooper Forest replace. What we do know is that Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake will be followed by Panther Lake and there's also word on Nova Lake being the successor to that. So it is possible either sometime after or between Nova Lake, we will see the introduction of Adams Lake for client CPUs based on the Douglas Cove uarch.

For Cooper Forest, it could be the successor to Clearwater Forest which itself is the successor to the upcoming Sierra Forest lineup. All three families are based on the E-Core architecture which is identified by the "mont" naming convention. 2024's Sierra Forest will utilize