#CHIPS: "Parallel Processor Now Rule, Rather than Exception"

Parallel processors were once exotic hardware programmed only by the most elite software gurus using black magic conjured from decades of experience. Today, however, almost all new microprocessors are multi-core, and parallel programming techniques are now in the toolkit of every working programmer. Intel, for instance, now has four lines of processors--Atom, Core, Xeon and Xeon Phi--all of which have multiple cores that excel at parallel processing: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog

All of Intel's modern processor families today are parallel processors, from the tiny low-power Atom to mainstay Core i3, i5 and i7, to the Xeon for servers and the many-integrated-core (MIC) Xeon Phi coprocessor.
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