Core i9-9980XE is a desktop processor from Intel released on 19 October 2018, and it is in active production status now. It belongs to Core i9 Extreme family and has a Skylake-X architecture. This processor is built on Intel Socket 2066, and uses Gen 3 PCI express connection. 14 nm process is used in production.
Processor has 18 cores and 36 threads, with the base frequency of 3 GHz. It has DDR4 Quad-channel memory support. As for the cache, it supports L1 64K (per core), L2 1MB (per core) and L3 24.75MB (shared).