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JEMC said:

Oh, by the way, AMD confirmed they're working on hybrid CPUs:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-to-make-hybrid-cpus-using-ai-for-chip-design-cto-papermaster-at-itf-world

With those, they could finally make Athlons with more than just 2 Zen 2 cores (Mendocino, 72xxU, Dali and Pollock, it's predecessors still were on Zen1...).

I doubt that AMD will use them nearly as much in higher performance chips as Intel does. I expect the Ryzen 9 8950 or the 9950 (not sure if the former will already get hybrid cores) will use 16p/8e cores, thus basically reversing the numbers from Intel's chips. The mobile, monolithic chips however will certainly get much mileage from them - and since the e-cores from AMD do support hyperthreading contrary to Intel's offerings, this should also vastly improve multicore performance even with less physical CPU cores added.