CPU designers debate multi-core future

[http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206105179]
    Встреча разработчиков процессоров от 02/06/2008:
    "I would like to call it a corollary of Moore's Law that the number of cores will double every 18 months, said Agarwal whose company currently ships a 64-core embedded processor."
    "Agarwal estimated by 2017 embedded processors could sport 4,096 cores, server CPUs might have 512 cores and desktop chips could use 128 cores."
    "Hetherington also suggested today's software model will survive through the next decade. I think we can support 500 to 1,000 threads per core. In fact, that may even happen in the next five or six years, he said."
    "Shekhar Borkar, director of Intel Corp.'s Microprocessor Technology Lab, said microprocessor cores will get increasingly simple, but software needs to evolve more quickly than in the past to catch up."


    Господа, еще раз - "... software needs to evolve more quickly than in the past..."!