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Re:The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer? by iolothebard on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @11:22AM (#9539592)
The 8 in the 8800 means it can do 8 sockets.

http://ark.intel.com/products/84685/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-...

>Package Specifications >Max CPU Configuration 8

So 18 cores * 8 = 144 cores / 288 threads per board. Not too shabby.

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