- Chips have been getting faster
- Kind of topped out due to physics, but science advances all the time.
- Instead, chips have been getting bigger
- Adding Cores only makes properly architected systems faster, so what to do with all of those extra cores?
- Makes programmers happy, because we can just say "restart the vm" rather than try to debug that old, poorly written program
- Makes administrators happy because we no longer need a dedicated server for that old, poorly written program written program that only runs on centos 3.
- Makes Money people happy