My understanding is they are only meant for servers/workstations since they only seem to be compatible with Xeon processors. Might not be what you wanted to hear, but on the good side, Intel has made an 80-core CPU about 18 months ago. They sent computers to several software developers with these CPUs in them so they could learn how to properly write programs that could benefit from all of those cores. Supposedly, if these people catch on to the concept, we should be seeing desktop CPUs with more than 8 cores in them shortly (and by shortly, i mean within 2 years).Originally Posted by rgathright
I have known this was in the works for over a year now with a demo back in 2010 at a similar trade show.
Making these a reality for desktop/server users is a whole other world for Intel.
I see this as Intel's effort to compete with NVIDIA GPU processing capability.
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