Today Intel announces Basin Falls Refresh (Skylake-X) series. Intel HEDT up to 18-cores According to Wccftech, the LGA2066 socket will soon support more than just 7th Gen HEDT series. Intel is allegedly skipping 8th Gen Core HEDT series and goes directly to 9th Gen Core. This is particularly interesting because the new series are not even new chips, but refreshed Skylake-X silicon. The 'flagship' model called 9980XE features 18-core and 36-threads. The clocks are unknown, but they are obviously going to be higher than 7980XE's.