Did you just come home toting a shiny new PC with a nice Intel Core 2 Duo processor in it? That is so yesterday.  

The company has demonstrated a prototype chip with 80 separate cores on it – that’s eight zero.  It can perform one trillion floating point operations per second; ten years ago, you would have needed 10,000 Pentium Pro processors to achieve that, and the first system to actually deliver this level of performance required 104 large cabinets occupying 2,500 square feet.  The new Intel chip is smaller than a fingernail.  

You won’t be able to run out next week and buy a notebook on which you can simulate thermonuclear explosions, though:  Intel engineers had to build a special motherboard for the chip, it’s not compatible with commercial hardware and software, and there are some problems to be worked out, including how to reliably cool the thing, and how to interface it with memory.  But the technology, or something very similar, could start to appear in standard PCs within five years.  

Read more at C|Net.

And another problem... who really needs that much processing power REALLY.  Does it come with a Matrix uplink as well?  Just curious.

Quoted from RobboInBC

who really needs that much processing power REALLY.

A question which has been asked many times over the past 25 years or so.  

It would appear that the data expands to fill the available hard drive space, and the processing requirements expand to take advantage of the available horsepower.

So the answer, not too long from now, will probably be:  just about everyone.