Somehow I missed this one, too. Cilk is also now a part of Intel: Intel now has Cilk inside.

The multicore world, like much of the business world, has be quiet lately. But this interesting bit of news came through the HPC Wire. It seems there was no press release by either Intel nor RapidMind: RapidMind Gets Swallowed by Intel

A talk from Stanford professor and early multicore researcher Kunle Olukotun: Keynote: Help is on the way for multicore software

From InfoQ: Axum, Microsoft’s Approach to Parallelism

From the EE Times: Multiprocessor debug startup raises seed funding

Some comments from Gartner on the future of multicore:
Gartner explores reality of x86 parallelism An interesting quote on the software vs. hardware mismatch:

The impact is akin to putting a Ferrari engine in a go-cart; the power may be there, but design mismatches severely limit the ability to exploit it.

A popular article from PC World magazine: Multicore Chips Pose Next Big Challenge for Industry.

An EE Times article on the slow road to multicore in comms:
Multicore CPUs face slow road in comms, The culprit: complex, fragmented technology.

From the Register: The long slog to multicore land

A one page IEEE Spectrum paper discusses the memory wall in supercomputer applications:  Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers