Microsoft TechEd 2008 was held in Orlando, Florida the week of June 2nd.  I was fortunate to attend many of the technical sessions.  I was surprised how many speakers were conveying the same message: 

CPU speeds are topping out.  If you want your applications to run faster and better you are going to have to build your applications in a new way.  The solution isn't just to learn how to multi-thread your applications.  The solution lies in building your applications into smaller units of code called tasks that can be moved around to the different cores of a multi-core machine.

Even in Bill Gates' keynote speech he said