Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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Ohio USA
Competition is good
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Intel Core i9 7980XE Flagship 18 Core, 36 Thread Skylake X CPU Leaked – Core X Series Family Tackles AMD Threadripper With Massive 18, 16, 14, 12 and 10 Core Models
..Features Core i9-7980XE Processors With Massive 18 Cores, 36 Threads, Guns Aimed at AMD Threadripper..
Intel has the money and resources to meet AMD "head on" and win. And, at first blush, they may have done it with an 18 core CPU (depending on clocks and performance which are TBD).
At least this much has become very likely (to me), 4 core/8 thread will be very inadequate in a couple years (for the newest games/apps). The folks who make the highest end games and applications will begin to design to make use of 16 cores/ 32 threads -- they must to keep their "highest end" ranking.
