[yuuko11]

Not sure what is required of a dev, but as an example, Adobe Premiere pro doesn't take any advantage of >1 CPU, at least on Windows. https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Should-you-use-a-...

[masklinn]

It’s probably not “average developer” either but some of the big box software still has per-socket licensing, or had until recently anyway.

[AdrianB1]

CPU as in core or socket? These days most CPUs are "many-CPU-cores-in-1-socket" and having X CPU cores over 1 or 2 sockets make a small difference, but software does not care about sockets.

[aidenn0]

Plenty of enterprise software is licensed on a per-socket basis.

[pphysch]

And if they read this press release they will probably try to switch to per-core licensing.

[w0mbat]

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