"manufacturers will find a way of improving performance, though the gains might be harder to capitalize on than clock speeds or core count". Don't count cores

"manufacturers will find a way of improving performance, though the gains might be harder to capitalize on than clock speeds or core count". Don't count cores out. Intel isn't. http://www.ciol.com/Intel/CP-Intel-CIO-Update/Future-Intel-design-codenamed-Larrabee/8908110053/0/ http://www.ciol.com/Intel/CP-Intel-CIO-Update/Future-Intel-d... Larrabee is expected to kick start an industry-wide effort to create and optimize software for the dozens, hundreds and thousands of cores expected to power future computers.