Sometimes there’s simply is no replacement for displacement. And if you believe in the philosophy that more cores is better, Falcon Northwest wants to show you its latest micro-tower PC: A 4-inch wide PC packing no fewer than 18 cores inside of it.

No, that doesn’t count the Hyper-Threading. The Tiki packs a true 18-core Xeon CPU, which means the Tiki actually packs a CPU with 36-compute threads and 45MB of cache aboard its Xeon E5-2699 V3 chip.

If you’re wondering how the company can possibly cram that much CPU into a case not much larger than the original Xbox, it’s only thanks to breakthroughs in tiny motherboards using more powerful chipsets than before.

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