I'm more optimistic about parallelism, and multi cores in general. Multi cores could have other advantages than parallelism. On mobile, if there's 8 cores, and

I'm more optimistic about parallelism, and multi cores in general. Multi cores could have other advantages than parallelism. On mobile, if there's 8 cores, and if the device/os is able to figure out the current load, and based on that turn off up to 7 of those 8 cores, the energy savings could be significant on the CPU side. (Depending on how much energy CPU uses compared to the radio or screen on a smartphone) Another obvious advantage as pointed as the end of the article is individual processes running independent work next to each other. Such embarrassingly parallel work can keep all the CPU busy pretty well.