This article was originally published in Oct 2007. (Author: Author Dean Dauger, Dauger Research, Inc.)

“Do you seek ever increasing speed from your computers? Do you think multicore chips are a sign of a healthy chip industry? In major trade journals, most articles on the subject seem to uncritically accept multicore as the processor solution moving forward, without suggesting any viable alternative. Meanwhile, the chipmaker giants, Intel, IBM, and AMD, increasingly emphasize multicore chips. But I believe the hardware problems that were serious enough to prompt such fierce competitors to agree on multicore herald a major transition in the computer industry whose full consequences, especially for software writers, are not yet appreciated.”

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