Most of these are SMP machines (and probably multicore chips) so you probably have >1 core per employee... Most of these are probably running engineering tools:

Most of these are SMP machines (and probably multicore chips) so you probably have >1 core per employee... Most of these are probably running engineering tools: simulations, verification, silicon back-end tools. Current chips require tons of compute power to develop, so this is not surprising [I do wonder how many of these are based on Itanium processors?]