Intel launches 10-core Broadwell-e processor for gaming and VR

Intel is shipping a new chip, the Intel Core i7 processor Extreme Edition (formerly code-named Broadwell-e) today for its target market of PC gamers and VR content creation professionals. The chip has as many as 10 cores, or computing brains, on a single silicon chip.

While the PC market isn’t growing as it once was, the enthusiast market is still hot. In fact, the world’s biggest chip maker says it has now shipped more than $1 billion worth of “unlocked” processors to date. The unlocked part allows enthusiasts to “overclock” a chip, or run it beyond its recommended specifications. The only people who really like to do that are gamers and content creators. The company is announcing the chip at the Computex trade show event in Taiwan today.