Multi-multi-core

The future of concurrent computing...

Come 2010, expect to see chips containing ten or more processing cores, he added.
-Paul Otellini at the Intel Developer Forum

The key to building future systems more easily is in languages for making concurrent programming as easy as object-oriented programming has made sequential programming. Objects (and higher-order functions, etc.) make the organization of names and sequential statements more manageable. Good concurrency models make the organization of space and time more manageable.

A programming language's concurrency model will have to support programmers conceptualizing tens and hundreds of thousands of processes the way languages today support programmers conceptualizing object models of tens and hundreds of thousands of objects.