You're not alone with this issue. There's another thread on this forum with users (myself included) experiencing this problem.
I created a support incident with VMWare a week ago. They got back to me with a list of things already tried by users in the other thread, so I asked them to please contact VMWare Engineering for details on their awareness of the issue and timeframe for a fix.
I sent them a reminder earlier today. This is the response:
Sorry for the late response. I have checked provided link. This is a known issue with different CPU cores after some of Windows updates in VMware workstation, we hope it will be resolve in next update.
Who knows when the next update will be ...
