Dual Core. Quad Core. Now they are 8 cores per CPU. It’s actually pretty amazing when you think about it.

This article isn’t about the number of cores though, it is more about how the web browser will now have the ability, as do native applications in the OS, to use all the cores available to perform multiple tasks simultaneously.

That’s a HUGE step in the right direction and it’s very exciting, because now developers can move forward and build more complex applications that will strictly live on the web.

Read about Intel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript. For us developers, this is certainly exciting news