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

[John Clark]

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
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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
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in action.

​ John K Clark​
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