Georg Wrede: > The more I think about it, the more I'm starting to believe that the > average desktop or laptop won't see two dozen cores in the immediate > future.
Too much late. My personal computer has already about 100 small cores in the GPU, and using CUDA (and soon OpenCL) you are even able to use them for almost general computations... And then comes Nehalem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Nehalem_(microarchitecture) Bye, bearophile
