[rbanffy]

If someone gave me one for free, I'd totally make it my daily driver. I don't do much AI, but I always wanted to have a machine with lots of puny cores since the Xeon Phi appeared.

The justification is that processors cores aren't getting much faster, but what they are is getting more numerous - entry-level machines have between 4 and 8 cores - and adapting code to run across multiple cores is important if we want to utilise all those cores.

[_zoltan_]

anybody writing single core code in 2025 professionally isn't very professional..

the core count doesn't matter. a top of the line Turin system has less than 1.4TB/s memory for the whole dual CPU system. A 2020 era A100 has 2TB/s.