Comment by PorciiVorbesc

>They did just fine in parallel workloads, so I think this is not accurate

Depends how you define "doing just fine in parallel workloads". The contemporary competition from Intel that was 4-core + SMT was beating AMD's 8-core FX CPUs in most real-world tasks and benchmarks at the time. The 8-core AMD broke even and rarely won only in >4-thread strictly integer benchmarks and some >4-thread media encoding tasks/benchmarks. So if you wanted a prosumer media encoding workstation a budget then yeah, the AMD was better, but for most real world task, it really wasn't.

>The design scaled just fine. The problem was that each core was weak.

Can you elaborate and be more exact? What you wrote is technically vague and doesn't mean anything in technical dissection/terms.