Just as I was thinking of building my next generation PC/VM, I run into this article :P damn should I wait another year for a 32 core processor lol...
AMD plots 16-core super-CPU for 2009 | News | TechRadar UK
I can almost definitely say that Datacenter will be shrinking more and VM certifications will be in demand and a requirement, more kudos for VMWare :P, hopefully applications will support and have flexibility with multi-core systems, from years to come.