Tera-scale Computing Research Program’s (at Intel) co director Jerry Bautista recently said “The more cores we have the better. Provided that we can supply memory bandwidth to the device." Similarly on Monday Anwar Ghauloum, a principal engineer at Intel took this a step further by adding: "Ultimately, the advice I'll offer is that...developers should start thinking about tens, hundreds, and thousands of cores now." He even said that his company faces a challenge in explaining how to tap into this performance. "Sometimes, the developers are trying to do the minimal amount of work they need to do to tap dual- and quad-core performance...I suppose this was the branch most discussions took a couple of years ago."

Eventually Intel in trying to tell software developers to start thinking about not just tens but thousands of processing cores and that silicon innovation is a never-ending road with only milestones and no final destination.

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