And we're still running desktop programs that rely on single-threaded performance, remember that the Python GIL removal project only got up to speed in the pa

And we're still running desktop programs that rely on single-threaded performance, remember that the Python GIL removal project only got up to speed in the past year(s) and that's not even mentioning a bunch of other workloads and legacies. Sparc development could focus on servers and many of those tasks were easy to parallelize so of course they went for cores once they couldn't keep up on the frequency race (esp when selling expensive machines).