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Many of the themes seen in the Fifth-Generation project are now being re-interpreted in current technologies, as the hardware limitations foreseen in the 1980s were finally reached in the 2000s. When [[clock speed]]s of CPUs began to move into the 3–5 GHz range, [[CPU power dissipation]] and other problems became more important. The ability of [[Private industry |industry]] to produce ever-faster single CPU systems (linked to [[Moore's Law]] about the periodic doubling of transistor counts) began to be threatened.

In the early 21st century, many flavors of [[parallel computing]] began to proliferate, including [[multi-core]] architectures at the low-end and [[massively parallel|massively parallel processing]] at the high end. Ordinary consumer machines and [[game console]]s began to have parallel processors like the [[Intel Core]], [[AMD K10]], and [[Cell (microprocessor)|Cell]]. [[Graphics card]] companies like Nvidia and AMD began introducing large parallel systems like [[CUDA]] and [[OpenCL]].

It appears, however, that these new technologies do not cite FGCS research. It is not clear if FGCS was leveraged to facilitate these developments in any significant way. No significant impact of FGCS on the computing industry has been demonstrated.{{cn|date=November 2022}}

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