Intel 8-core Haswell-E Slated For 3Q 2014

[Poke]

Faster is better.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-8-core-haswell-e-x99-ivy-bridge-e,25525.html#xtor=RSS-998

 

[Neutron]

Thing is would anything take advantage of an octa-core CPU?

 

[John Kotches]

Thing is would anything take advantage of an octa-core CPU?

Yes. Some of us do things like virtualization on our desktops for prototyping and/or testing.

 

[Teehar]

Man,that's gonna make my AMD quad core seem like a snail.

 

[John Kotches]

Would love a lower TDP of this for a laptop. Yes, I'm serious about that.