Intel: 80 Cores or Nothing...

Intel announced to have developed an 80 Cores chip as the result of its innovative 'Tera-scale computing' research program. Technical details of this chip will be presented at the annual Integrated Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) this week in San Francisco. But already from the Press Release, specifications look quite promising: 1 chip = 80 cores @ 3.2GHz consuming only 62W.
Of course, such cores are not the same ones that we can find in Core 2 Duo or Quad Core Xeon; as the Tera-scale chip only features 100 millions, but they are designed according to a different architecture making it more efficient and massively parallel.
We will not see those CPU tomorrow in our Mac, as this Teraflop research chip first the result of a program aiming to explore specific insights in new silicon design methodologies, high-bandwidth interconnects and energy management approaches; but it paves the way for future CPU (r)evolutions.