The future of computer hardware

Greg Papadopoulos of Sun posted this in his blog Greg Matter : Weblog
His well argued conclusion:

"By 2010 microprocessors will seem like really old ideas. Motherboards will end up in museum collections. And the whole ecology that we have around so-called industry standard systems will collapse as it becomes increasingly obvious that the only place that computer design actually happens is by those who are designing chips."

Now, like all things emanating from vendors of computing related products, this is somewhat self-serving in that Sun is indeed a chip designer, and should be taken with a grain of salt. However, his conclusion is logical.