It's pretty easy to eat up cores when you're developing graphics rendering algorithms, which can be far more convenient and ergonomic to do on the CPU in a gene

It's pretty easy to eat up cores when you're developing graphics rendering algorithms, which can be far more convenient and ergonomic to do on the CPU in a general purpose compiled language, and scaling out via plain old threads. A CPU with so many general purpose high-perf cores that it manages to look like a GPU in terms of execution units count is a beautiful thing.