Linuxers posted a tutorial about using the lscpu command to get CPU/Processor information on Linux

There are a lot of ways to get information about your system’s cpu. You can either dump the contents of /proc/cpuinfo file, lshw or my recent discovery "lscpu". This utility gathers all the data from sysfs, /proc/cpuinfo file as well and shows it in a human readable format.

  Use the lscpu command to get CPU/Processor information on Linux