I think before we get so many cores on a single chip we'll go back to what was taking off yet disappeared 5 or 6 years ago; motherboards for enthusiast PC's with support for 2 CPU's. SLI made a come back after years being undeveloped so motherboards with multiple CPU support might also make a comeback for the home PC.
Don't count out GPU's either. Looking at the specs of AMD's new ATI card, its not hard to imagine video cards with 2 GPU's containing multiple cores in systems with multiple CPU's each with multipe cores, or the amalgamation of GPU and CPU like IBM's Cell.
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