Re:CPUs still have *A LOT* to evolve (Score 1)

I would beg to differ. CPUs have been showing a reverse trend... leaving aggressive hardware based optimizations to cram in more cores and increase the performance/watt. This generally helps increase throughput but slows single threaded performance. Thankfully, desktop processors are still not going the same direction where single threaded application performance still matters.

CPUs are not about to evolve more. You might say systems will evolve more... the interconnects, more cores, more SIMD, NUMA etc. Your examaples actually show problems in algorithms used... not the hardware on which it runs.