# Cpu name from Julia

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cpu-name-from-julia/45964>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [September 2, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cpu-name-from-julia/45964 "2020-09-02T16:51:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![LaurentPlagne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/laurentplagne/32/10103_2.png) [@LaurentPlagne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/LaurentPlagne)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cpu-name-from-julia/45964/1 "2020-09-02T16:51:18Z")

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Hi,  
Is it possible to get the cpu name with Julia ?  
I tried CpuId.jl but it returns a lot of information which I am not able extract…

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**Author:** ![pbayer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pbayer/32/11675_2.png) [@pbayer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pbayer)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cpu-name-from-julia/45964/2 "2020-09-02T17:01:18Z")

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```julia
julia> Sys.cpu_info()[1].model
"Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz"

```

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**Author:** ![Elrod](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/elrod/32/22461_2.png) [@Elrod](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Elrod)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cpu-name-from-julia/45964/3 "2020-09-02T17:01:20Z")

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If you just want to know the family, you can use:

```julia
julia> Sys.CPU_NAME
 "cascadelake"

```

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**Author:** ![LaurentPlagne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/laurentplagne/32/10103_2.png) [@LaurentPlagne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/LaurentPlagne)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cpu-name-from-julia/45964/4 "2020-09-02T17:20:08Z")

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Thank you very much @pbayer and @Elrod !!

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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cpu-name-from-julia/45964/5 "2020-09-02T21:10:10Z")

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Please have a look at archspec [https://github.com/archspec/archspec](https://github.com/archspec/archspec)

Could/should Julia align with this