Sorry, but I don't buy that. We're also moving to a thin client world where we don't actually need that much power on our thin clients.
Of course the chip makers are saying that - they want to sell more chips. They have to come up with some other number they can increase.
Do you really think performance doesn't need to be increased from the current status quo? The number of cores will only go up from here.
There will always be an increase in power demand. To think otherwise is short-sighted. If you could keep what we have now or have a sentient computer sitting on your desk, which would you choose?
Of course there will be massive demands in the world of servers, research, gaming etc, but that's not everything.
It may be a sad day for those of you who program primarily for the challenge, but for those of us who want to get stuff done, it'll be a joyous day. :)
Yeah, we've heard it before, several times, from the moment that networking was invented and onwards. Why will the push for this stick _this_ time around?
then you clearly aren't buying new high-end servers for data crunching either, because these are already multicore