diatribe Let's hope that their IPC stays the same so that these will chips will be strong in single and multi threaded applications. And of course remain affordable and available in the market.

Given the current price of R7s, I would be surprised if the 16 core offering is less than $1K US. It will be interesting to see the price of these when they are released. The whole platform with a 4K+ pin socket looks like it could be pricy.For people willing to shell out the bucks for workstation class machines, hopefully, they may be bargains.