Pemalite on 01 August 2017
| JEMC said: 2 of the dies are not enabled, that's why they're "only" 16 cores, not 32. |
There is allot of discussion about that and how wasteful it is on tech forums.
Either the dies are blank and specially fabricated for spacing reasons... Or AMD will switch them out for say... Aluminium Spacers for the consumer release. (Just so that there is even pressure across the entire package.)
Keen to see which way they take that. But having two dies completely going unused seems extremely wasteful, even if only 1-2 cores are functioning, they could still be used for some other market segments like Industrial low-power.
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