But only recently the CPU speed increases have slowed down quite a bit and
the advances are more in the form of more cores. The point being that the
software doesn't take good advantage of more cores. That will change, but
for a while not everything will.



More cores sure do help when running multiple simultaneous programs,
which is far more prevalent than it was a few years back. Also load has
shifted to coprocessors like the powerful GPUs on modern graphics cards.
I'm not seeing any slowdown in the technological advancement. Processors
are still getting faster, hard drive capacity is growing faster than
ever, a $1,000 PC today provides performance far superior to high end
workstations of 5-10 years ago. As for the increases in performance
slowing down, I'll believe it when I see it.