Improved Computer Memory Management can enable chips
with thousands of cores:
"In a 128-core chip, that means that the new technique would require
only one-third as much memory as its predecessor. With Intel set to
release a 72-core high-performance chip in the near future, that’s a
more than hypothetical advantage. But with a 256-core chip, the space
savings rises to 80 percent, and with a 1,000-core chip, 96 percent."
See:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/09/imp...ement-can.html