Francois Piednoel is the ever charismatic Intel rep who keeps us entertained with Tweets and forum posts. Just today, he posted the following message on Twitter:

Survey: Would you buy a 12 cores CPU #Extreme_edition Unlocked at the price of the 12 cores #Xeon? if so, Re-twit!!! pic.twitter.com/lKPEB2bl9N

— Francois Piednoel (@FPiednoel) November 2, 2013

At the moment of writing, only 6 people re-tweeted the message. For your information, the price of a 12-core Xeon E5-2697 v2 (Ivy Bridge-E) is EUR €2200. That is twice the price of a Core i7 4960X, but you also get twice the core count. What do you guys say?