Quote Originally Posted by Dimitriman View Post
I wish the software industry would drive the hardware industry instead.
Wouldnt it be nice if we had software capable of being executed in 24 threads but not yet the processor to do it?
Then we could just be counting the weeks till a 24 thread processor came out to provide all that power.
I like that world more than 'we have a 24 thread processor but we need to make each core as fast as possible so we still run those 1 threaded codes faster'
Sigh.

Name 3 time critical programs which aren't properly multi threaded! There aren't any.

There is no NEED to go faster. Why would there be? The trend is to go smaller and more efficient. Desktop shipments will go down as usual and netbook shipments will go up. We're yet to find the optimal solution; something between a smartphone and a tablet. A personal device capable of everything. Though I believe that we're with ~10-14" netbooks/notebooks and smartphones for a long while. I don't see tablets being "the" future really.

As AMD has been preaching heterogenous computing will be the future. More and more of integration and cheaper parts benefit everyone.

The trend of desktop machines will soon be dead for great majority of Internet and computer users No more huge powerhouse gaming rigs and easy parts swapping and overclocking.