I dont know, perhaps they are not making 4x24c part, cause it would be too power-hungry, or because it would not physically fit into that 4677 socket?You would think if they were capable of making a Larger compute tile with 24 cores that had quad channel memory, they would use it on the Top of the line Sapphire Rapids and charge $20,000 for it. That would give them 96C/192T with 16 memory Channel to combat the Zen4 Monster that is about to be released.
But instead they will be releasing a 56C/112T part by the end of 2022 or early 2023 just to get mauled by Genoa and Bergamo?
they had 40 core monolithic chips before, if they chose to make their SPR tiles only 15 cores, clearly the reason is not that they could not do more, but because they chose not to.