It may not be due out until early next year, but an engineering sample of Intel’s monster Core i9 processor (the kind we saw benchmarked) ended up on eBay. The 2.4GHz Xeon Westmere Gulftown chip’s auction ended, unfortunately, so all you nerd millionaires can forget about snagging the expensive escapee. More »
On paper, the Core i9 might not sound that exciting: It’s a lot like the Core i7, except built with a 32nm fabrication process and two extra cores, for a total of six. Early benchmarks, though, say it flies. Sometimes. More »
