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arsenicazure said:
I think quad cores will become common place by late 2009 and probably 8 cores 2 yrs after. 80 cores.. atleast 10 years though...and thats probably gonna cost an arm leg and a kidney

How about octa cores about by late 2010? After all they are coming in second half of 2009. :)

http://www.hardware.info/en-US/news/ymiclJqRwpuacJY/Octacore_Nehalem_in_second_half_2009/

Also afaik apple has offered octa core systems for their mac book pros for two years already.

Heres some benchmarks about that octa core system,

http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6663792.html?tag=subnav