Since this thread seems to be oriented towards multi-core CPUs and their effect on pcsx2, I just thought I would air a concern related to this. See, a few weeks ago I was reading an article about AMD possibly supporting DDR2 or DDR3 in the future and it linked to a processor roadmap for AMD processors, anyway long story short, I noticed that AMD was introducing something called 'Presidio security technology' along with thier dual-core chips(this was the first time I had heard of this 'Presidio'). So, I googled it and it turns out it is AMD's compliance with so-called 'trusted computing'(I already knew about Intel's LeGrande, but I was clinging to the hope that AMD would not adopt it(

how foolish of me)). So they are actually going to do this, now this brings up an issue concerning the idea that faster hardware will solve the 'speed issue' with pcsx2. That is to say I'm sure Sony at least would love to do away with PS1 and PS2 emulation and Trusted computing could give them just such an opportunity. You see, one of the things invisioned with this Trusted computing is every program on your computer having to aquire a digital certificate from some centralized registry(Microsoft?), with out this certificate the program will not run and may not even be accessible. If such a thing were to be implemented in the next few years, what is to stop Sony(or someone else) from pulling the cert's for pcsx2, pcsx, epsxe, etc..
I am interested in hearing what the people here think about this issue. The backers of this technology claim that it wont be used this way and it will be opt-in or opt-out, but from what I can tell it wont work unless it is mandatory and I cant think for any real reason why they would install it in all CPUs made after a certain time except to control what people run on their 'own'(I say this because it is clear to me that these people do not believe that you own your computer) computers.
This concludes my rant, just thought people here should be aware of this.