> don't keep the hardware busy as it should 24h around the clock.

If your workload demands 24/7 100% CPU usage, Epyc and Xeon are for you. There you can have multiple sockets with 256 or more cores each.

> Most consumer software even less

And yet, even in consumer gear which is built to a minimum spec budget, core counts, memory capacity, pcie lanes, bus bandwidth, IPC, cache sizes, GPU shaders, NPU TOPS, all increasing year over year.

> systems with built-in FPGAs failed in the consumer market

Talk about niche. I've never met an end user with a use for an FPGA or the willingness to learn what one is. I'd say that has more to do with it. Write a killer app that regular folks want to use that requires one, and they'll become popular. Rooting for you.

You have to root for those hardware designers to have software devs in quantities, actually using what they produce, at scale.