When AMD’s Lisa Su
demonstrated the company’s upcoming 7nm Ryzen CPUs at CES, sharp-eyed
viewers quickly realized that there was room for a second chiplet on the
processor she was holding. This implies the potential existence of a 7nm Ryzen desktop CPU with up to 16 CPU cores double the amount AM4 supported when Ryzen debuted. AMD has been coy about its plans, confirming only that it won’t use the gap for a GPU with this generation of Ryzen products.
The safe assumption, at this point, is that AMD will likely roll a 16-core, AM4 Ryzen at some point in 2019. That, in turn, suggests the likely existence of a 12-core chip in a die-recovered part. And based on information submitted to UserBenchmark.com and spotted by Apisak, there are new 12-core parts coming to the AM4 platform.