Here's a thought: cut government expenditures.

Why is the solution always "let's get creative and find a new way to extract money from our citizens?" Much more useful would be a someone who has enough real world experience to know what to cut and enough balls to do it even though 0.0001% of the population whines (they will anyway- they're victims of anything they can think of). Where are the real leaders who can actually help our economic situation?

Those Chipmakers should pay attention to IEEE's opinion. Dealing with memory is a significant problem for processors as the number of cores increase. That sounds like a hardware problem to me.

Shoving responsibility from software to hardware or from hardware to software isn't going to solve anything. There's things that have to happen on both sides before we can go nuts with the number of cores we put on chips.