Over-internet clouds (like Google's) constitute a threat to Intel's business model. Cloud computing says you don't need to buy your own powerful CPU; someone will buy just enough CPU's to support the average load, and you'll rent them when you need them. And you can have your computing finished sooner because of parallelism in the cloud.

Intel seems to be intentionally muddying the terminology to defend their business model. "Here's a cloud on your desk" says you can have parallelism while owning (and buying) your own CPU.

As an aside, Intel is right and Google is wrong, IMHO. Most of the money in a CPU is in the development, not in the hardware. And chip manufacturing benefits greatly from scale. If Google makes it so that people don't buy their own CPUs, it will only save money in the short run. The more people rely on Google's Clouds, the more Google will have to pay for each CPU. Meanwhile Intel can sell cheap versions of what Google needs to the consumer. Cut out networking overhead, get a workstation . . . I mean a Cloud on your desk!

We've seen this pendulum swing before, and it always comes back. Those who want computing have to pay for the development of computers somehow. In a world in which the incremental cost is low to own your personal copy of Intel's (or AMD's or whoever's) Intellectual Property in silicon, the workstation will always win out.

Until silicon is replaced with something much more expensive.

So leave NYC. :-) I know the poster you replied to said "even in NY", so I'm off topic. And it's easier said than done, I know. People have friends, family, all that. And I guess some people just love the big city. But if staying in my city meant choosing between a crazy loan on a house I can't really afford, or 4 hours commuting every day -- wow, when can you enjoy your friends and family? Move to a smaller city, take a small pay cut with a big cost-of-living cut, and it's REALLY easy to slash that commute. Mine is 10 minutes each way, which is entirely luck, but it's really easy to gain 2 or more hours a day over your commute, probably much more, in a smaller fun town. Just don't come to Austin, because we're getting too many new people already. :-)