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 dissipated. The first dual-core processors entered the datacenter in 2001 before Denard scaling of chip clock speeds more or less ceased around four years later, which is the last fre...