Now that you mention it, I'm not sure it needs to.
As long as you clear ~100 cores, I think you're done.
As long as you clear ~100 cores, I think you're done.
Why do you think so? The 2007 book "Future Directions in Processor Design" says (p483, Ch21):
http://www.springerlink.com/content/xp811205j8523537/
If we think of the technology development as predicted in the ITRS roadmap [208], it is clear that more and more processors will be crammed onto a single chip. The prediction for the roadmap is that we will see hundreds or even thousands of precessors integrated within the next ten ... fifteen years, e.g., 424 precessing elements per chip in 2017. The trend can be confirmed by looking at some ambitious high-end projects in multi-core and multi-processor development. For example, Rapport Inc. is shipping a chip with 256 processing elements on board and is developing a 1,024-core processor, however these are only 8-bit elements [281].
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My bet is that we will see more specialized processors for different specific tasks. The "one size fits all" simply cannot provide enough cost and power efficient enough solutions for the embedded sector. Thus, we will see various special-purpose off-the-shelf cores emerging.
It isn't an argument about the technology, rather about what humans will be able to manage.