[mey]

Moore's law is no longer in effect, it is cheaper to add more cores these days then add more speed.

Edit: My point is that, since we live in a real tangible world, where CPU power is being expanded by parallelism rather then increasing single pipeline throughput, we have to deal with that reality. To dismiss it to prove your point, seems a tad bit naive.

[klodolph]

Moore's law is about transistor count, not about speed. The increasing number of cores on a single die is predicted by Moore's law.