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All of which leaves us wondering how much difference the extra cores make and whether they're worth double the price of the six-core i7 chip.

And paired with Intel's 22nm manufacturing process and 3D transistors, these chips will fit right into workstations and server rooms.

It would feature 6 cores and 12 threads with a clock speed of 3.40 GHz base and 3.90 GHz with Turbo boost 2.0.