While AMD and Intel pound their chests, boasting about new chip cores, developers must labor to keep up. “The dirty little secret (and it’s not all that secret) is that the gap between hardware and software has never been greater. Today’s software can barely (if at all) take advantage of quad-core processors, but Intel and AMD seem to be giddy with rivalry, rushing to push out chips with even more cores,” Bill Snyder writes in this week’s Tech’s Bottom Line, in which he asks Multi-core to leave developers in the dust? Technology Industry