Intel Launches Eight Core, 16 Thread Nehalem-EX
Yes, it can play it.
UPDATE: We've added in a couple new videos from Intel and IBM talking about the Nehalem-EX architecture and application.

In the enthusiast space for Intel fans, Gulftown may have just arrived with its hexacore power, but the world's largest chipmaker has a special new product for the server space.
Intel today launched the Xeon 7500 processor series, which offers up to eight cores packed in a single chip that's able to handle 16 threads at once. Systems can include up to 256 chips per server to combine for 2,048 cores and 4,098 threads.
"The Xeon 7500 brings mission critical capabilities to the mainstream by delivering the most significant leap in performance, scalability and reliability ever seen from Intel," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president of the Intel architecture group and general manager of Intel's data center group. "This combination will help users push to new levels of productivity, and accelerate the industry's migration away from proprietary architectures. We are democratizing high-end computing."
This Xeon series is the first of the family to possess Machine Check Architecture (MCA) Recovery, a feature that allows the silicon to work with the operating system and virtual machine manager to recover from otherwise fatal system errors, a mechanism until now found only in the company's Itanium processor family and RISC processors.
The new Nehalem-EX chips won't be cheap though; the hexacore X7542 model starts at $1,980 and the octacore X7560 is $3,692.
Duck Hunt
...play what, I don't know what you're getting at...
It's not the number of cores, it's how you use them. hehehe.
...play what, I don't know what you're getting at...
What I'm saying is, I'd rather we see improvements against the hertz barrier, not the core/threading. I mean, if we get an 8,000mhz processor, give each core 4 threads! (Though I do not know if this is possible (I don't know how hyperthreading works) ).
oh come on marcus you are no fun...
on that same note - WOW.
Duck Hunt
Speaking of duck hunt, I recently tried to play duck hunt on my old nintendo only to find out that the game does not work with LCD screens...
It was a bit of a disappointment, but I guess I shoulda known.
It's not the number of cores, it's how you use them. hehehe.
Play Crysis.
Eurocom has a laptop with the Core i7 975 in it, as well as quad core xeons at 3.2 GHz, so it's probably going to happen sooner rather than later. Eurocom also offers a server grade laptop.
Why doesn't it work on LCD screens? I never quite understood how it worked anyway. There's no sensor bar!! Or any kind of calibration. +1 Vintage Nintendo
Now... Now i can't help but think "Why? Is this really necessary"
Why? It's way more expensive than their solutions. If you can shell out the cash you can use Intel and if you have a tighter budget you can choose AMD. The fact that both companies have released new server-oriented processors with different price points is good news since nobody would be forced to pay a premium or get stuck with older tech.
It's only necessary for large servers that are either:
A. Doing scientific research (as the article states, bringing x86 to higher end supercomputer levels)
B. Acting as the host OS for multiple virtual machine servers.