I see a lot of "ohh its been done before", hence its a bit naf.

Most of everything has been before, in some way or another, so I think its a bit unfair to bundle crit in that way, yes its not "totaly new" but geting the performace out of it is an acheivement.

If it was so easy to do and obvious to everyone (which it seems to be), then why didnt say... AMD make the jump? Theres always inherent problems trying to intergrate an new, or old, idea into an exisitng design.

As I said its not new, but the performance out of a single CPU compared to current technology is a pretty big jump, over going up the route of more cores, which have there downfall.

Edit, as for being replaced next year, then well, yeah of course, thats progress and Moore's law. It would be a tad stupid not to...