Intel company reported that the series 5100 dual core processors xeon woodcrest will be updated to the stepping G0. The processors had the B2 stepping .
As in case with the analogous passage on new stepping , this measure will optimizes the processors energy consumption , or it will bring the improved support to virtualization technology , including the support of programmable controller interrupts and register tasks priorities .
The change of stepping will bring change in CPUID for 51xx xeon processors . It will be replaced from 06F6 to 06FB.
The test models new Xeon are supplied from 10 October, and final passage to the new version will takes place on 21 November.