If the Mill architecture pans out, then there could be a huge jump in compute coming our way. Unfortunately it's still a few years away from silicon. Part of me hopes that Intel buys them out and either finds a way to integrate some of their ideas to x86, or rebrand it as "Itanium 3" and fulfill...
There have been "real" quad-cores with and without HT for a number of years already. IIRC the Q6600 was the last where a quad-core was really two dual-cores slapped together. Also, I doubt the i7 line will end, HT is still useful to many professional/workstation/server loads--if not so much on...
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