Why ryzen threadripper has 4 dies inside

The famous professional overclocker der8baurer has been the first to delidy a Ryzen Threadripper processor and show the world what is hidden under the IHS. The result is that the new beasts include no less than four dies of 8 cores each, you will be thinking that this is what EPYC processors are… because it seems that they are essentially the same chips.

You will not be able to mutate your Ryzen Threadripper processor as you did with the Phenom

AMD has confirmed to der8baurer that only two of the four dies are active, something that is already intuited because the Ryzen Threadrippers have been announced with a maximum of 16 cores so it was expected that half of the dies were not functional. With this, the two deactivated dies only have the function of supporting the IHS, thus preventing it from doubling down, cruel reality for them but this is life…

They have Delidded the AMD Threadripper: They are soldiers

So has AMD wasted half of the dies? It seems that the two non-functional dies are still a mere support for the IHS as we mentioned above, this may mean that they are not actually dies or that they are dies but for some reason they were not functional so AMD did not loses nothing with its deactivation. Silicon chips are never perfect, so sometimes serious errors occur in their manufacture making them unusable at all - this would be the case on Ryzen Threadripper processors.

Surely seeing that Threadripper has 4 dies, many users immediately remembered the time of the Phenom, so it was possible to buy a dual-core processor and mutate it to one of four-core if you were a little lucky and you got a good chip whose deactivated cores were not damaged. Those days are over, no one is going to be able to mutate a Threadripper processor.

Source: pcworld