This article previews some previously known but unannounced processor products. But it is also the first article I have seen that gently hints at the consequence of dawdling in the migration to parallelization.

"At this point, it’s hard to imagine that any software developer is not aware of the multicore challenge. But it’s fair to say that few have openly publicized new 'multicore friendly' versions of their applications. If they don’t start to show up soon, there could be a lot of angry customers out there."