After Effects limited to 32 cores?

I'm running Windows Professional 7 on a new machine with 2x 10-core E5v2 processors. There's a total of 20 actual cores and 40 virtual cores. After Effects CC (latest build) is only registering 32 of those cores even though Cinebench and the Windows Task Manager are seeing all 40. See the attached screenshot. Has anyone else seen this issue?

Some cores may be tied up with OS operations or other tasks. The report may be correct.
One more thing about After Effects fully utilizing system resources. AE is a frame by frame rendering machine which means that it takes the data from all of the layers in a single frame of a project and starts making calculations. The ram and resources required to do this depend on the size of the frame and the coding of the calculations. Many effects are not optimized to look for all available resources, but even if they were a 12 core machine with a bunch of ram has way more calculating capacity than all of the data from 100 layers of HD source material and the effects processing so it's highly unlikely that the full system resources would be used to make the calculations.
3D apps and render engines they use rely on much more complex calculations of the paths of light rays, reflection, refraction and every other thing a light ray does as it interacts with a material. These calculations can easily cascade into a demand for all available resources. It's a totally different way of calculating pixel values. Until AE's basic architecture is re-engineered there's no way that a HD or even 4K frame size will use up 40 virtual cores and 64GB of ram.

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When I run those programs my system is pushed to the limit- which is why I bought a quad core system in the first place. Mental ray, Fusion, 3D Coat, Zbrush...the list is long of programs that have no problem using all my cores for 90%-100% of opperations.
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