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Computers will have 80 cores in 2010-2011.
 

There should be at least 32 cores in 2009.
 

It could be 2010 for 32 cores according to some reports.
 

I would say that it would be at least another 5 years before something like that became feasible for home users...

Would the next step for multi-cpu processors be going from 2 to 3? or 2 to 4?
 

Actualy, IBM has been working with Sony on an 8-core cpu (it's the one used in the PS3), although I'm not quite sure when it will be released on a PC or when it will be surpassed. When it is, though, it'll be 16-core, since computer technology always goes by exponents of two.
 

Four cores are coming out in November.
 

80 Cores By 2011

About 10 petaflops are need to simulate the human brain. A supercomputer with 10 petaflops is coming out in 2010.
 

It's from Kurzweil.
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