Supermicro Shows Off 80-Core Xeon Server

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The more cores the better!

The server board has four modules, each of which can carry two upcoming 10-core Xeon E7 CPUs. Intel's new 32nm Westmere EX will debut as E7-2800 series (two sockets), E7-4800 series (four sockets) as well as E7-8800 series (eight sockets) with six, eight and ten cores as well as clock speeds ranging from 1.73 to 2.4 GHz.   

Prices have not been announced.

Picture courtesy: www.heise.de

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Douglas Perry was a freelance writer for Tom's Hardware covering semiconductors, storage technology, quantum computing, and processor power delivery. He has authored several books and is currently an editor for The Oregonian/OregonLive.

38 Comments Comment from the forums
  • lp231
    How about a single CPU with 80 cores?
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  • verbalizer
    ridiculous..
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  • mavroxur
    *drool*
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  • mavroxur
    *drool*
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  • masterasia
    I have this exact model in my living room for my HTPC
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  • masterasia
    Hey.......Where's my comment?
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  • campb292
    Holy cow. Technology moves so fast. I just upgraded my Commodore 64 to a 486DX2. I think I only have 1 core.
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  • compton
    I'm guessing price is somewhere in the neighborhood of $not cheap.
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  • kilo_17
    1TB of RAM? That's insane!
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  • jn77
    I wonder what this would do for Batch raw photo and uncompressed 1080p/60FPS video editing..... could it be done at 2-4 times real time on windows 7 64bit?
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