80 cores? wtf?

The blogosphere has been abuzz with a prototype chip revealed by Intel at the Intel Developer's Forum that has 80 cores. 80. Apparently within 5 years as well.

Sony is having enough trouble getting people to write games that will take full advantage of the 7 extra cores that will be available on the variant of the Cell chip they're using in the Playstation 3. Even more to the point, the vast majority of the software I use doesn't even support dual core setups. 80 cores? *Pfwah* to that I say.

If compiler technology and coding techniques has advanced sufficiently to take advantage of even half that capacity, I will be very surprised (and happy - I mean, 80 cores! That would rock).