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We have a long-standing joke that dates from the early 2000s, when the hyperscalers – there were not yet cloud builders as we now know them – started having hundreds of millions of users and millions of servers and storage arrays to run applications for them at the same time there was the beginnings of consolidation...

How many cores is enough for server CPUs? All that we can get, and then some. For the past two decades, the game in compute engines has been to try to pack as many cores and additional functionality as possible into a socket and make the overall system price/performance come down per unit of power consumed and heat ...