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Re: [News] Hardware is Ahead of Software (Or: Windows is Falling Behind)

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Capable of processing 1 trillion calculations a second, Intel's latest test
chip, when used commercially, will revolutionize computing


| The main stumbling block to widespread acceptance of such chips, however,
| is the difficulty in writing software to take advantage of multiple
| cores.

The main stumbling block to such chips is that if you totalled all my supermarket purchases in a lifetime, it would be a small fraction of 1 trillion.


We're already awash in chips that can out-numerate us...

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