Intel 50 Core Chipset

A University of Texas of supercomputer will tap a future Intel chip that contains more than 50 processor cores--the first instance of Intel supplying this novel technology to a commercial computer.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and University of Texas announced  today that they will deploy a 10-Petaflops (or 10,000 trillion operations per second) supercomputer dubbed "Stampede."

intel Core i7 3960x Released

Intel has released their new Core i7 3960x Sandy Bridge-E , LGA 2011 Processor. Intel is announcing three Sandy Bridge-E-based models today, but only two will be available through the end of 2011: Core i7-3960X and Core i7-3930K.
The third, Core i7-3820, is slated for a Q1 2012 introduction.  Today Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition: a $990 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon.