Yeah it looks cool no doubt. The accuracy of the article is what I am questioning. The guy can make good fliers, I just think he should do his homework. You feel me? There are already 8 core intel chips in the pipes and the specs are fairly well known, enough to make a dummy flier about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Nehalem_(microarchitecture)
Its called Bekton. Its an 8 core server chip. 24meg L3 cache 4xQPI, quad channel DDR3, hyper threading gives it 16 threads. It will live on LGA-1567
It isn't a gaming chip, but i can see something like skull trail being made for it, and i expect some pretty crazy systems to come about.
Of course you could also base it on Sandy bridge which is a bit further in the future (2010 or 2011)
# 4 GHz clock speed.
# 4 to 8 out-of-order cores.
# Without SSE: 8 DP GFLOPS/core (2 DP FP/clock), 32-64 DP GFLOPS/processor.
# With SSE: 28 DP GFLOPS/core (7 DP FP/clock), 112-224 DP GFLOPS/processor.
# 32 KB L1 cache/core, (3 clocks).
# 512 KB L2 cache/core, (9 clocks).
# 2-3 MB L3 cache/core (8-24 MB total) (33 clocks), most likely pooled and dynamically allocated among the cores.
