One Thing From James Gosling's Oracle OpenWorld Keynote

He showed a graph of log(CPU clock speed). It was essentially a linear line from 1975 until about 2003. Since then it has been about flat, even down a little bit. Then he overlayed a graph of the # of cores * log(CPU clock speed). After a few years of flat the linear increase resumed again. Chip companies are finding it easier to increase cores than to increase CPU speed.

He then projected this trend out to 2030. The result is a CPU with > 5000 cores.

Hmm -- Maybe I better go buy that Scala book for the plane ride home.