... market research firm said programmability of multi-core systems is the number one issue that the EDA industry needs to solve. (Moore 's Law Threatened by Multi-Core Programmability Challenge)

On similar note, Intel announced support for multi core education. (Read Intel supports university education on multi-core)

According to Intel (Santa Clara, Calif.), the undertaking is a global effort to prepare university students for a "new paradigm" of software development as Intel transitions to processors incorporating multiple cores and threads. Intel expects more than 75 percent of its mainstream server, desktop and laptop PC processors to ship as dual core-processors by the end of this year. Four- and eight-core chips, are on the horizon, the company said.

Problem scope for EDA industry is slight different than Software industry though! EDA solution must be performance oriented on expense of generality of the solution. However, software solution has to provide generic support at expense of performance..

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