No, the move to new hardware and increase in the number of available cores is se...

carbocation · on March 18, 2013

I rebooted and confirmed; indeed the older L5520 is still the processor being used on my particular linode:

<snip>

    processor       : 7
    vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
    cpu family      : 6
    model           : 26
    model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5520  @ 2.27GHz
    stepping        : 5
    microcode       : 0x11
    cpu MHz         : 2266.746
    cache size      : 8192 KB
    physical id     : 0
    siblings        : 8

</snip>

karlshea · on March 18, 2013

This is from a plan that is less than a week old:

  processor	: 7
  vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
  cpu family	: 6
  model		: 44
  model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5630  @ 2.13GHz
  stepping	: 2
  microcode	: 0x15
  cpu MHz		: 2133.460
  cache size	: 12288 KB
  physical id	: 0
  siblings	: 8