Intel preview eight-core Nehalem-EX Xeon...16 Core MacPros here we come!

This is crazy fast. If you've not experienced on of the current 8-core Nehalem-based MacPros, and even if you have, you can't wrap your head around this. Basically with this hyper-threading (the current MacPros have this) you get a "virtual core" concept. What this does is lets the 4-core chip available today run 8 threads (computations) simultaneously - basically double what is should be doing. Now if you could cram 8-cores (Intel has!) onto that chip and then run TWO of them you're now talking about a 32-virtual-core system...each of which run at around 3Ghz. Now look at that image above and check out the roadmap...Gulp!

Intel peeks eight-core Nehalem-based Xeon: "The design will stand as Intel's first eight-core processor and, thanks to Hyperthreading, will run as many as 16 program threads at once. It will also have the most bandwidth of any design with four QuickPath interfaces, which create a point-to-point link between the CPU, memory and peripherals. Each core will have as much as nine times the bandwidth of present-day Xeon 7400 processors."