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Re:Intel Xeon E5 v3: Up to 18 Haswell EP Cores by sprachspiel on Monday September 08, 2014 @11:23PM (#8288597)
Well, the biggest Ivy Bridge EX has 15 cores! There's speculation that the 18 core Haswell-EPs are actually Haswell-EX dies that Intel wants to get rid as fast as possible because these chips have buggy TSX (transactional memory).
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