I think this is more about physical packaging than actual new architecture. SGI, among others, was building 1,000 node, cache incoherent, shared memory systems

I think this is more about physical packaging than actual new architecture. SGI, among others, was building 1,000 node, cache incoherent, shared memory systems 10 years ago. But those systems occupied a whole room, not a single chip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCI_Blue_Mountain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCI_Blue_Mountain