Lisa su claims there could be ryzen 3000 of more than 8 cores on am4

After showing off an 8-core Ryzen 3000 CPU in all its glory, Lisa Su gave several interviews to the tech press that have been quite a talk. We already told you yesterday about his statements regarding the development of ray tracing technologies by AMD, and now we can see several sources confirming his statements about the possibility that there are Ryzen 3000 CPUs with more than 8 cores.

Lisa Su's statements about Ryzen 3000 leave the way open to the 12 or 16 cores in AM4

We have known these statements from various sources. One of them is Ian Cutress, editor of the Anandtech website, who had the opportunity to interview the CEO of AMD. One of the statements is as follows:

Q) More than 8 cores?

A) There is some extra room on that package. You might expect us to put more on that package.

- Dr. Ian Cutress (@IanCutress) January 9, 2019

In the PC World interview, he also said:

Some people have noticed that there is some free space in that package. There is free space in that package and I think you might expect that we will have more than 8 cores. Lisa Su

Although the AMD president is not overly explicit on this matter, she makes clear what we already suspected a few hours ago. Indeed, it is possible to incorporate another “die” at 7nm in Ryzen 3000 CPUs, with which up to 16 processing cores could be incorporated.

In the same interview, we can also read the following regarding the possibility that AMD will focus more on single-core CPU performance:

Our first priority is overall system performance, but we know the importance of single core performance. So you will see us improve single core performance. Lisa Su

In summary, the statements are quite encouraging regarding the future of AMD Zen, and we hope that these objectives will be met as they would mean a great competitive advance for AMD. As always, a competitive market is a healthy market. We will see what happens in the coming months.

Via Anandtech Source PC World