You bet it is. Now... where is my FPGA App Store!

There's a good analysis over at the daily circuit that dissects what is being suggested by Intel, who is not just talking the death of within-node shared memory, but also of intercore asynchronous message passing. I liked the comparison with sending emails with large video attachements, instead of YouTube links, and then requiring the recipient to clear the inbox before a new email can be received. http://www.dailycircuitry.com/2010/11/intel-talks-kilocore-processors.html

There's an interesting analysis over at the daily circuit that covers this and the new Toshiba form factor, comparing in terms of Gigabytes per gram with 640GB 2.5" and 3TB 3.5" drives.