They need a product for people who need expansion slots for non-GPU things, and it fits that. I agree that it’s likely they wanted to use the quad M2 chip (jad

They need a product for people who need expansion slots for non-GPU things, and it fits that. I agree that it’s likely they wanted to use the quad M2 chip (jade 4 C die, if I remember the term correctly), which would have given them far more PCIE lanes and made it more desirable. But that doesn’t seem to have worked out. And the lineup had a whole they needed to fill for some of their top end customers. So here we are.