Quote from: Oakman on June 19, 2022, 15:45:58Why sooo concerned about no 7700X? Who really cares?? Most won't use the power of the 7600X, and AMD yields seem to allow higher spec CPU easily, with a lot of step-ups to be available. So why should AMD cripple/demote GOOD silicon, leave $$ on the table, and give us less of a CPU?
It's not really crippling to lower clock speeds by a couple hundred MHz on the worst but intact 8-core chiplets. Crippling is when they turn an 8-core chiplet into a 4-core. Almost no reason to do so.
If AMD continues to use 8-core chiplets as it moves into Zen 5/6/7, maybe 6-core can be at budget prices while the top-end uses 3-4 chiplets.