>The real future is going to be in reprogrammable hardware, something akin to FPGAs but with cores as building block instead of gates. We need massively parallel chips with an order of magnitude more cores than we have today (at least 256 as a baseline), with better interconnect and smarter routing that can do something like content-addressable memory.

that is a kind of a step in the similar direction:

http://www.greenarraychips.com/