The Decline and Fall of the CPU

"Specialized cores are inevitable for one simple reason. If you design a chip for a specific task, the same number of transistors can perform that task 10-100x faster or more. These kind of performance gains can't be ignored. Why not include some cores designed specifically to run certain applications?"

Eh....thats not going to happen...not in a longshot, in standard desktops, mabe in Workstations and computers involving Rendering. Programmers are going to eventually adapt to multiple cores, but because multi-core processors, have only been out for a short time (in a sense), programmers have not learned/adapted to writing there code to be optomized for multi-threaded applications. This is not just affecting windows, many programs in Linux are not multi-threaded too, though there are apps that are, including the kernel (via the SMP version). This idea could be also a "flash in a pan" for all we know......because if we had specialized chips, we would have a large ammount of them in computers in the future, and that isnt resnoable.

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