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The situation today is quickly becoming a replay of what happened 10 years ago. Application vendors requiring more CPU bandwidth can no longer count on increased clock speeds for better performance and functionality. Most large-scale client-side applications are written in C or C++ and historically have been designed to be single-threaded. Making applications MT-hot is still a labor-intensive redelivery process. Although a few vendors, most notably in the multimedia area, have made some MT enhancements to their applications, they have just started to pick off the low-hanging fruit. With multi-core CPUs, widespread desktop performance and functionality improvements are still years away.