there is no official statement yet, so I guess so
if you want to pull a K404 on yourself, you can start using the new wrapper hoping that one day it will get approved, bench 20 cards with it and wait for Lord Massman to say "no"
you question weirdness of Knut's CPU collection samples?
I believe back in the day there were 'unique' San Diego CPUs that disguised themselves as other models (text on IHS and CPUz did not match) - this is one of them.