I think we might see more cores (and other innovations) becoming useful for offline AI/ML purposes, as well as virtual reality applications. Both right now are

I think we might see more cores (and other innovations) becoming useful for offline AI/ML purposes, as well as virtual reality applications. Both right now are mostly dependent on GPU cores (the more the merrier), but can be bottlenecked by the CPU usage (depending on the task, of course - games tend to want more of everything). Though both of those might stay niche areas, since most people are moving to mobile devices and any need for more compute power can come from "cloud resources".