A good article on ARM from EE Times Asia: ARM invasion moves past mobile market. Interesting that ARM ships 90 cores per second. But when it comes to multicore:

Many SoC designers—and ARM licensees—are struggling on one issue in today’s environment of multiple GPUs and MPUs: Is there a compiler that can automatically spread load energy efficiently across those multiple cores in a SoC?

ARM’s answer is, no, not yet.

Acknowledging that “huge software challenges are coming,” Inglis said, “Many SoC vendors are, just about now, running into an ‘oops’ phase.” He warned that the industry is still in a very early stage of using multiple cores for their SoCs. “Real SoCs based on multiple cores to run real applications are just about to come out now. They are being debugged. Many engineers are suddenly asking, ‘how do you run all these tasks in so many cores?’”

From PC World: Intel 48-Core “Single-Chip Cloud Computer” Improves Power Efficiency This just as the Larabee CPU +GPU is being canceled.

From Cnet: Intel: Initial Larrabee graphics chip canceled This was the INtel CPU + GPU device.