In an article on Wired.com today, a new chip ready for launch early next year will offer 100 Cores. Now a 100 cores is quite a few to cram onto a single chip and these clever folks that designed it have some novel new approaches to memory access and avoidance of other bottlenecks common to multi-core CPUs. A 100 cores is going to make a mess of Linux's 'top' display though.