We also don't see many 8 core chips on the desktop market. Chicken and egg problem. Very few people have the incentive or funds to get either the hyperthreaded

We also don't see many 8 core chips on the desktop market. Chicken and egg problem. Very few people have the incentive or funds to get either the hyperthreaded i7s (which don't really have 4 cores), the 8 core Xeons or the 8 core AMD high end parts.