"Intel Xeon E7 v3 “Haswell-EX” central processing units for servers with up to eight sockets will feature up to 18 cores with the Hyper-Threading technology, quad-channel DDR4 memory controller, integrated PCI Express 3.0 links and so on. The chips will be introduced in the Q2 2015, according to a report from DigiTimes, which cites industry sources."
Brings on a whole new meaning to "all dem cores"....
http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/intel-to-release-18-core-xeon-e7-v3-haswell-e-processors-in-q2-2015/