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Intel Launches Its First 10-Core Desktop CPU With Broadwell-E
Two years since the release of Intel's Haswell-E platform, which popularized 8-core processor to users. On Tuesday, the chipmaker unveiled Broadwell-E family, which consists of an "Extreme Edition" of Core i7 chipset that has 10 cores and 20 threads. (Do note that Intel is intentionally not calling it deca-core.) Intel says the Extreme Edition is designed for games, content creators, and overclockers. From an NDTV report: The 7th generation Intel Core processors are built on the 14nm fabrication process, and are part of the 'semi-Tock' release -- neither in the Intel Tick or Tock cycle. and come with Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 for more efficient core allocation for single-threaded processes, giving up to 15 percent better performance compared to the previous Haswell-E generation. All four new Intel Core i7 Enthusiast processors, codenamed Broadwell-E, support 40 PCIe lanes, quad-channel memory, and bear a TDP of 140W. Give Intel $1,723 and the Extreme Edition pack is yours.
"Intel says the Extreme Edition is designed for games, content creators, and overclockers."
Also known as people too dumb to realize they're paying a thousand percent markup for commodity hardware.
but does it go to 11?
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It's obviously not meant for plebians. It's meant for the programmer who makes >$200 an hour, i.e. the time lost to compiling is worth more than this extreme high-end CPU is.
I did a PC refresh project at a Fortune 500 company a few years ago. The initial batch of Dell workstations had six-core processors. But Dell ran out of six-core processors and dropped in eight-core processors. The senior engineers almost broke out into a riot since they grabbed the initial shipment and the junior engineers were getting the eight-core processor workstations, upsetting a delicate pecking order throughout the office.