The future of multicore.

Here is an interesting debate which happened @ISSCC over the future of Multicore processors.

A recent acquisition of AGEIA by NVidia points to a possibility where engineers could potentially integrate a physics processing engine with a GPU engine to get some cool real time graphics computations. AMD's acquired ATI. They could have plans of integrating a CPU + a GPU on to a single chip.

There are plenty of low power media processing engines who have done cool stuff like integrating ARM cores with DSP functionality to get best of both worlds (low power + performance in processing MPEG and H.264 data).

Enclosed is a link to eetimes...
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4EKF1BULG3GFMQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN;?articleID=206105179