Well, 'lots of simple cores' is potentially one answer - but it does require you to have the type of workload that can work well heavily threaded. Similarly, C

Well, 'lots of simple cores' is potentially one answer - but it does require you to have the type of workload that can work well heavily threaded. Similarly, CPUs that are heavily threaded rather than speculative, i.e. they don't mind stalling because they have lots of other threads they can switch to.