At the moment, Quad-Core computers are available in many computer stores for purchases, but a concept chip with 48 cores which proves to be feasible is not too far away from being available for the computer market. 48 core computer, when it comes out will probably going to dwarf a Quad-Core computer in term of multi-tasking. You’ll be surprised if I told you that this 48 core chip uses the same amount of electricity as a single Intel processor. You can bet on that big companies with huge data centers are going to love 48 core chip, because they can save huge amount of money by not wasting space and electricity. It’s going to be a challenge for programmers to program software that take full advantage of a chip with that many cores. Source.
