This is the perfect chip for continuous, low-memory number crunching. For everything else... not so much. I mean, this chip consumes 74W when idle, of which almost 90% are spend on the interconnect. That's insane. Most important bit in the review for me:

"After core counts, the next battle will be on the interconnect. Low power, scalable, and high performance: process node scaling will mean nothing if the interconnect becomes 90% of the total chip power."