dicktracy Probably up to 48 cores only. 7nm+ is supposed to improve yields and make it cheaper to produce... so cheap enough to give 64 cores for us non-datacenter plebs with Threadripper series. Still doubt the rumor though...

Yeah, I also doubt they will make a 64 core straight on. Remember than on first gen Zen they gave only half of the cores available, so I don't see any reason they wouldn't do the same this time. My bet is 48 cores max this gen, for refresh 64 cores and then Zen 3.LE: Well, thinking about it some more, this can be a chance for AMD to make some big money and have no competition whatsoever from Intel. Just look at 3900X, it sells pretty well, even though it costs 500$. People are willing to pay big money for big performance, so I guess it would be a good move to release a 64 cores threadripper. It would be unmatched by Intel on price, performance and it would give AMD a boost in customer opinion, since it has been quite long since AMD didn't had the best CPU in the market, period. Money wise, I don't think they can make the same profit as they make with ... 3900X, if they keep the same price as the 2990WX. For 500$ they sell now two defective dies (6+6 cores) so, 250$ per die.A 64 core threadripper is made of 8 fully functional dies, the IO dies must also be fully functional and if they sell it for 2000$, they get the same 250$ per die, but now it must be a perfect die. I don't know, only thing I can say is that it would be nice from them to have a 64 core CPU for desktop.