[maxtower]

Theres only one reason why they went to multicore. Its not a matter of opinion open to debate.

Multicores are there because having two cores provides better performance. Making a single core run fast enough to provide similar performance is too difficult given the heat and power problems.

Multicores were less viable before because the processor size would have been too large and negatively affected yields.

So yes, it is somewhat of an admittance of process (I think this is what he meant instead of x86) limitations.

This doesn't have that much to do with the original topic other than to lend credibility to the fact that the product is becoming increasingly complicated while prices are falling, while growth rate of the marketplace is slowing.

Max