The Great CPU Stagnation
In fact the CPU stagnation is worse. In contrast to the shrinking chip size and higher frequencies of past scaling laws, CPU core count does not easily translate to performance gains. It needs specialized and careful designed software to tap the capability.<p>In fact if CPU core count <i>did</i> translate more easily to performance gains I think already with the existing CPU's we'd have a fairly signficant one-time boost.<p>Maybe somebody has statistical survey of how much of the existing deployed CPU core count is typically used?