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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.
One possibility is that "deca" is the slang for "Deca Durabolin". This anabolic steroid is infamous for causing loss of sexual function as a side effect - which is in a way quite ironically amusing, as one would imagine that most steroid users are trying to make their bodies more attractive for mates of whichever gender they prefer.
The loss of sexual function is called "deca dick".
Still, one would imagine that having your monstrously powerful new CPU named after a steroid isn't the worst thing. This chip certainly is "juiced up", it's the most powerful CPU Intel has ever released.
The software I support takes about an hour to compile with a 20 way build on an enterprise class server blade farm. Before I optimized and increased the parallelization of the build process it used to take 10+ hours. Not every project compiles and links that quickly.
AMD has x86 processors with 16 cores. As I recall you can have up to 4 CPUs per motherboard, so 64 cores total. Whether that's appropriate for your "desktop" is your decision. Their APUs have 4 CPU and 8 GPU cores.
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