Yea I can't wait for the announcements to happen in the coming weeks. So far the best rumours I've seen seem to have them topping out at 48c for the new TR line, but none of them have been particularly authoritative looking, just that there haven't been leaks of anything looking at 64c yet. I suspect that what might happen is that they'll announce with up to 48c but then a few months down the line they'll announce the 64c cpu. That would line up well with what looks like caused the delays with them not being able to get the quantity of the chiplets they need. They'd be able to frontload all the lower core count demand and then when they don't need nearly as many of them start making the larger ones.
I really hope 32c would work with my Zenith Extreme x399, and 64c with 8-channel TRX80/WRX80. So I could upgrade old TR with a 32c Zen 2-one and buy another 64c with 4TB ECC LRDIMM for some Machine Learning tasks. I am also fine if AMD decided to do 64c TR with Zen 3 only (4xSMT?). But based on Blur ad, I guess they are going to release 64c TR based on Zen 2 as well, just to completely obliterate Intel in HEDT, even if it costs $5000.
Yea the x399 compatibility will decide when my upgrade happens. The Zen+ TRs weren't enough for me to justify but the Zen2 ones seem like they've finally hit. If I need to do a motherboard and other upgrades that'll delay me doing so for a while (need to see how PCIe passthrough and other stuff settles out with the new chipsets) but in either cases I'm going to end up upgrading to this next gen one way or another.
