[ExI] Intel announces massive 18-core Core i9 chip

[J.R. Jones]

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017, 13:13 John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 5:26 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ​> ​
>> The Core i9 Extreme Edition i9-7980XE, what Intel calls the first
>> teraflop desktop PC processor ever, will be priced at (gulp!) $1,999
>> when it ships later this year.
>
>
> In a historical context $1,999 is not a lot of money. The world's first
> ​ ​
> teraflop
> ​ ​
> Supercomputer was ASCI Red, it went online in 1997 and cost 46 million
> dollars. And that was in 1997 dollars, counting inflation that must be
> close to 100 million
> ​ today​
> . So the price dropped from that of one of the most luxurious yachts in
> the world to that of a moderately well provisioned rowboat.
>
> Moore's law
> ​ ​
> in action.
>


Looks like I've found the processor for the Thermaltake 900 in white I
picked up.

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