[meastham]

Sure, if you completely ignore all of the extra circuitry for the on-chip network and cache coherency and everything else you would need. Transistor density is far from the limiting factor in the number of cores we can wedge into a single system.

[jdeeny]

If you assume that there is no cache (only on-die memory) and that memory is not shared between cores, things become much simpler and scale more linearly. Core-to-core communications and plenty of other details remain to spend man-years ironing out, but it seems like it would be possible to approach 64k cores or at least 16k.

[RodgerTheGreat]

Might be able to peel out the BCD stuff from the 6502 to free up a little additional space and approach communication between cores kinda like the "handshake bus" GreenArrays chips use: http://greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/PB003-100822-...