A 64/128 core variant would effectively be a revival of their Xeon Phi line, which, in its later days, was basically this. It seems inevitable we'll see it aga

A 64/128 core variant would effectively be a revival of their Xeon Phi line, which, in its later days, was basically this. It seems inevitable we'll see it again. My guess is it'll happen after Intel gets comfortable enough with chiplets to ship decently binned parts at a reasonable price (probably by sharing chiplets with laptop chips or some other high-volume product) I think mass market tech media doesn't know how to interpret the impact of efficiency cores or big/little designs for average PC users since the best effort example they've seen so far was Apple's M1, which changed other things at the same time. Meanwhile, enthusiast tech media doesn't care because their existing reference frame is almost exclusively performance cores. I think they'll be more inclined to see the first generation or two as a gimmick, and then a laptop-only thing if Intel catches up on the performance core side.