[tempguy9999]

> one for databases

as a DB guy, there's no 'one task' for DBs . The only thing I can think that is nearly characteristic of DBs I've worked on is that they're IO bound.

That's possibly true of most things except Floating point and graphics.

[snaky]

While that's true, you can achieve impressive results offloading particular parts of particular DBMS code to the specialized CPUs, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_11.0.0...