> The biggest road bump for 48+ core SoC will be parallel programming. And if you're okay with parallel programming (which, let's face it, is the only way to d

> The biggest road bump for 48+ core SoC will be parallel programming. And if you're okay with parallel programming (which, let's face it, is the only way to do high performance computing), then you'll possibly be hit by memory bandwidth or cache size. Because if you have 48 cores on a single lump of silicon, they won't have very large dedicated caches each. However, if you have an appropriate job that will scale out to all the cores with a small working set then the performance of this thing could be rather interesting.