Simple physics has rendered Moore’s Law obsolete. Well, not exactly, at least not just yet, but the famous dictum from Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore that microprocessing chips will double in speed every two years has about run its course.

This doesn’t mean that the information technology industry, which counts on ever-faster computer chips to support the constant rollout of “must-have” new IT products and services, will soon grind to a halt. Instead, some of the best and brightest engineers in Silicon Valley and beyond have developed a new way to boost the speed and efficiency of microprocessing chips — the brains of computers and the life force of server networks — by threading software through so-called multiple-core processors.

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