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

[Dylan Distasio]

Looks like a sweet case!  You may want to see where pricing on the AMD 16
core threadripper comes in also.  I would expect it will be announced
shortly.

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 3:08 PM, J.R. Jones <mrjones2020 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017, 13:13 John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Looks like I've found the processor for the Thermaltake 900 in white I
> picked up.
>
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