Meet AMD's New History-Making, 16-Core Beast  Your quad-core
computer doesn't seem so great anymore now, does it, champ?
AMD's Opteron 6200 boasts 16 cores running at up to 2.6 GHz
each. That is a lot of number crunching—and the first x86 with
16 cores.  Sadly, the monster isn't really made for you. AMD's
going after server farms with the 16-headed Opteron—places where
all of those cores can actually be taken advantage of, as
opposed to a game of WoW. But in case you really, really want
all those cores—and money isn't a problem—the upper deck model
can be snapped up for a cool $1,020. That's only like $64 a
core! And since the 6200 uses AMD's power-saving Bulldozer
architecture, you might even end up saving money, in some
extremely complex rationalization you might want to employ.
Tenuous, fine. So how about this? The 6200 can overclock its
cores on the fly by up to an extra 1 GHz, and supports up to 384
GB of RAM. I can't wait to see how Skype runs on this thing.
[AMD via PC World]