adroc_thurston
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a) this is nonsenseThat is a very interesting idea, indeed. For Zen 6 I do not expect something like that to happen. For Zen 7 I think not as well (16/33C CCDs, bigger L3$ and simply faster cores are already a decent enough update). But Zen 7 could still introduce it (core count mania). Would be sick to see a 512C Zen 7 SKU
As the beachfront of the IOD is limited, daisy-chaining makes very much sense in the mid- to longterm. It are just a few hundred of GByte/s if putting 2x CCDs in series. Such a concept opens up the door to very huge core count scalings without adding too much cost (much bigger CCDs, much more IOD area, ...).
b) no one wants 512c sockets since DRAM pop gets nightmarishly hard.
No one wants either, not with modern DRAM densities anyway.512C totally doubt this with the meager density gains they have to make the package significantly larger 384C seems possible