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• Aardwolf 13y ago
  Yes, they had 4-core CPUs in 2006, and still have 4-core CPUs in 2013 (with a few rare xeon 6-cores).
  • skorgu 13y ago
    You can get 8-core Xeons (X7550 to pick a random one) and 16-core Opterons (6378 for example). More importantly 2013 Xeons do much more per clock cycle than 2006 Xeons (and 2013 Opterons for that matter). Improvements in pipelining, branch prediction, caches, etc are harder to nail down to one number like clock speed or core count but can be huge contributors to real-world performance.