In order to be competitive, Intel is doing the only thing it can do, based on what it has in its arsenal: the new 18-core Core i9-10980XE that comes out today is going to have a tray price of $979. The new Cascade Lake-X processor, based on the same silicon as Intel’s already-launched Cascade Lake generation of Xeon processors, comes with many of the same features introduced for those parts.
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