Even if it uses chips with defective cores, it's four times the silicon. The 24-core Threadripper is actually greatly advantaged compared to the 7950x for the r

Even if it uses chips with defective cores, it's four times the silicon. The 24-core Threadripper is actually greatly advantaged compared to the 7950x for the right workload. There is four times the L3 cache, and four times the bandwidth from the chiplets to the io die. If you just needed a place to sell chips with a core defect, there are Ryzen SKUs for that.