Hood This doesn't look good, an $800 part cut to $400 after 1 year. Some might say this is AMD's way of giving back to their customers, but I think they're cutting their losses. The sTR4 boards are too high ($300-$600), 4 sticks of DDR4 3200 will cost almost another $400. This is just too much for the average AMD customer, who are used to $100 boards and $50 RAM. A half price CPU is still not cheap enough to entice many to this expensive platform.

Holy crap man, soon you can get TR at the McDrive for a dollar."Want some extra cores with that?"The average customer won't need 12 cores for a loooong time and any Intel HEDT route has the exact same price issues on all other components ON TOP of the CPU. I think this loss is a calculated one and a logical one. AMD needs mind- and marketshare before anything else and unsold chips are dead weight anyway. To get back to the McDrive comment, these TR chips are as common as flipped burgers (its just Ryzen x Ryzen); the real money is made on EPYC and to get that going, you just need more wafers.I remember when Intel moved 'mainstream' core counts into the HEDT line up for the bottom end and it had good reason: some workstations are fine with just the added lanes and RAM options. What you get here with TR is quite the same, and some extra cores on top, almost for free.