sirmonkey1985
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I can see them eliminating either the 8 or 12 core SKU. Just seems like too many products. Most people bought the 16 core part anyway.
Just speculation though. I wonder if people are still interested in the 8 core part. Time will tell.
there's no reason to get rid of the sku's. it doesn't really effect anything to produce them since it's just disabling cores on the base 16 core sku. there's plenty room to do it given there isn't a am4 2800x.. have the 8 core TR4 one be the 2800x, 12 core 2850, 16 core 2900, 24 core 2950, 32 core 2990.
not everyone needs core count for what they're doing but might instead need the performance available from quad channel ddr4. thus things like the 8 and 12 are better options for them at the lower price point.