Beside all announcements to tackle the multi-core programming challenges, no major breakthrough can be ascertained. The issues are especially relevant on the client-side in the domain of mainstream applications. I have already posted a couple of comments on that.
Even the business world has identified the current status as a problem. The Fortune magazine addresses the topic in the last issue with an interesting article - A chip too far? The article is about risks and opportunities, and a Stanford professor describes the situation as a crisis – probably yes, probably not. It is definitely a huge chance for skilled programmers and people with the right ideas. I do agree with one statement totally – after years of abstractions in terms of platforms and languages, the complexity and hardware dependencies of multi-core architectures increase the learning curve for an average programmer dramatically.
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