Accelerating progress of processor cores analogous to development of 20th century transistors

KurzweilAI.net has a link to an interesting article by John Markoff of the New York Times about the accelerating progress of multi core processors and the parallel programming challenges they are creating. This points to a new paradigm shift - an individual core processor is analogous to the transistor of the 20th century and we will probably see a new "Moore's" Law of the number of processor cores doubling every 18 months from now on.

Chris K. Haley, NestedUniverse.net. Get free RSS or email updates here.