Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 12/28/2017 7:26 PM, T wrote:
On 12/28/2017 05:03 PM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:


The i9 is out now, 10, 12 and 18 core, Sells for up to $2600.00 for
the i8 core.
Apple is supposed to be using them in their Super high price iMacs
which start at $4999.00 up to about $13000.00

Me thinks a waste of money, but I haven't tried one. A fast
NVMe drive makes all the difference int he world.

18 cores? Reminds me of the commercials for shavers that
make fun of multi blade shavers by showing a 10 blade shaver.

How in the world will all 18 cores talk over the same
busses? Oh well...

Methinks it will be a long time before software is available for it,
Maybe Cadcam software. And professional people with awful deep pockets.

Rene


The Google developers who work on Chrome/Chromium,
use processors like that for their builds, as well
as linking to a ton of other boxes to accelerate the
build.

In fact, stuff like that is how a software developer
knows his or her boss, loves them. When they buy a
big thing like that for them to play with.

I bet if Microsoft developers could talk in public,
they'd probably mention getting machines like that
too.

They're not given quad cores any more. Only a cheap
manager would do that.

Paul