[geeks] testing..

[Dan Sikorski]

On 4/8/2010 4:23 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> Those are four threads per core, so it's "only" 8 cores, and they're 8
>>> cores per socket.
>>
>> You are obviously correct, I've been brainwashed by MS/Intel to falsely
>> believe that 'thread' equals 'core'...
>
> Except Intel still produces multi-core chips that also use 
> Hyperthreading.  I think the biggest chips from Intel nowadays are 
> four (six?) cores with two threads apiece.

The newest (released last month) have 8 cores, 2 (?) threads per core.  
They also can be used in 8 socket systems.

     -Dan Sikorski