Re:Productivity applications et al (Score 1)

After the conclusion of this slashdot opinion center, I will summarize all the software instruction comments and suggestions and send it to the designers within Intel that decide what new instructions will be added to future processors.

For the memory comments, as Tom Womack mentioned, signal integrity is one of the limiters, but board area is also a problem. On the typical ATX or BTX boards there is not enough physical space to place and route 3 memory sockets per channel. That's not to say someone couldn't design a larger board , or spend the money and effort to ensure signal quality, but then the board would be more expensive and you might not save any money. In addition, most desktop chipsets today do not have the control and clock signals necessary to support 8 memory sockets. In the not too distant future, memory manufacturers will have 4G memory sticks. 16G on one desktop board should allow you to cache Linux, Vista, Solaris and any other OSs you want to run on a virtualized system.