NSA force CPU makers to limit CPU'S?

It just seems to me that multi-core processors are a waste, when that space could be better used by a single bigger processor core.

Anyone that's ever designed a circuit realizes that redundancy is redundant.  4 processors !/= 4x the power.  Fractional improvements are fractional of what normal should be.

Most of the videogames I require to be made depend on calculating subatomic particles to create entire universes, ecosystems, and biological organisms that make up societies of people who stare at you and say "Outlander..."