In a new report, IDC analyst Matt Eastwood posits that multi-core processing "may be one of the most significant industry developments of the past 40 years" and will cause a market shift by 2009. Eastwood goes on to note that "users expect significant price/performance improvements from [multi-core] systems and anticipate that multi-core will further accelerate the adoption of server virtualization technologies." continue
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