I don&#x27;t like those charts because they focus on consumer CPUs and neglect the GPU. The GPU is what all the extra die space is going to these days on <i>consumer</i> CPUs. On the server you&#x27;re seeing 18 core CPUs announced last year [1], so we are indeed seeing multicore scaling in both the consumer and server markets. It&#x27;s just that, for consumer CPUs, the new cores are GPU cores instead of CPU cores.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ark.intel.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;81061&#x2F;Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2699-v3-45M-Cache-2_30-GHz" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ark.intel.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;81061&#x2F;Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...</a>