New top-end Intel i9's have 18 cores/36 threads!

In 2013 when I built my current rig, I thought my i7 4930K was impressive with 6 cores/12 threads but Intel has blown past that with 12 core/14/16 & the big daddy at 18 cores!  More importantly these CPU's are in the Tera Flop range now finally...GPU's have been there for awhile ;-)

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3198430/components/intels-core-i9-starts-a-bloody-battle-for-enthusiast-pcs.html

If anyone's thinking of getting it...careful as aside from price, it requires a brand new chipset of course (this is why I build new comps every 5y or so instead of trying to upgrade parts ad hoc).

Meanwhile, checking the latest Top Supercomputers list

https://www.top500.org/lists/2016/11/

we see that China has the top 2, no way US closes that gap with Trump in charge ;-)  Seems the peak speed of which is 125K Tera Flops or 125 Peta Flops!  That's now in the ballpark of Exa Flops = 1000 Peta Flops...that's key because the best computational neuroscience estimates are that the Human brain computes at the Exa scale level!

You may be wondering, this new Intel chip with it's 18/36 cores can only do 1 or 2 Tera Flops while the supercomputer can do 125,000 Tera Flops???  Did I forget to mention that supercomp has >10 million cores!!! haha