Someone deep down in Intel's development dungeons must be laughing a
haughty laugh of disdain at us mere mortals getting excited about dual-cores in smartphones. The old Chipzilla has just turned out its 10-core
Xeon E7 processor family, which can work on 20 simultaneous
computational threads courtesy of the company's Hyper-Threading knowhow.
Needless to say, there aren't that many casual workloads that will ever
properly harness such extremely parallelized prowess, but then Intel
isn't really gunning for the Facebook crowd here anyhow. The new E7s are
for those dealing with truly data-intensive tasks, meaning that
Facebook itself would be a good candidate to buy up a few,
provided it's tempted by such things as 40 percent performance
improvements over the Xeon 7500 tied to dynamic power adjustment for increased energy efficiency.
Pricing for the Xeon E7s starts at $774 and climbs up to $4,616 per 32nm
chip, with the usual proviso that Intel won't sell them in batches of
less than 1,000.
via Engadget
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