the problem wiht adding more cores to a processor to increase speed while side stepping moore's law is that you still in the end have to figure out a way to make everything smaller. I.E. a 3 gig processor in theory following the speed of light restriction on computational power states that no part of the computer that directly interacts with the processor can be more then 10 CM from the processor its self, or at that point the computer can no longer process at 3 gigs.
even with nano technology everything still at this point ( with exception to the current theories involving teleportation that use the small and large nuclear attraction principles ) the speed of light cannot be broken. which seeing as light is 186,000 miles per hour one would think this is not an issue, until you realize that to make a computer smaller, so that it can compute faster and not have the issue where a component can not be farther away then a certain distance from the CPU. to get things closer together,r they have to be smaller, and once they get a certain size they start to literally evaporate form the current flowing through them.

Problem? making something that is small enough to outweigh moor's law, while making it strong enough to carry the current required to transfer the data.

other possible solutions aside form organic processing?
fiber optics maybe?

though that discussion will take us away from theoretical physics I am still game for it.

g-man