Y'all are talking about seperate things, I think. SMT often does boost database heavy "cloud" workloads, but not client workloads like media processing, games,

Y'all are talking about seperate things, I think. SMT often does boost database heavy "cloud" workloads, but not client workloads like media processing, games, work apps and so on. We have it on desktops/laptops because they use hand-me-down server cores. Its not worth redesigning the cores to bifurcate the architecture.