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Pemalite said:

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.

Well, replacing two dies that can probably be harvested into Ryzen 5 o 3 chips is smarter than just leaving them there doing nothing., so it wouldn't surprise me to see them replaced by aluminium spacers.

But it would be so cool if AMD leaved them there and someone found a way to bring them to life, even if only in part...