"One of these would be very good in virtualisation environments to name just one example."

No it wouldn't!! Being a virtualised environment doesn't change anything. At the base level, you are still dealing with the problem of distributing multiple processes (ie - the processes that form each individual virtualised environment) across multiple cores. You still have the same memory bandwidth and contention problems. You still have the same inter-core co-ordination issues (the vitualised environments are just a smokescreen to the applications - something has to co-ordinate them all)

Virtualisation doesn't fix anything in this regard.