There may be physical space for 16 cores in the new ryzen 3000

The Ryzen 3000 processors have just been shown in preview, and with them their morphology with an interesting design with 2 chiplets, one for the CPU itself and the other for I / O. This would allow a maximum of 8 cores and 16 threads in this generation of processors. However, there is information indicating that there is probably room for 16 cores and 32 threads. Let's see why.

Could there be Ryzen 3000 processors with 16 cores and 32 threads?

The key to this is in the physical space available to add another "chiplet" with the processor core apart from the existing one. We are talking about the smallest die seen on the CPU, the 7nm die. The Anandtech portal has the measurements of the 8-core, 16-wire engineering sample and, it seems, there is enough space for the inclusion of this other chiplet.

Then, the combination of two die with up to 8 cores each to get to 16 would be achieved hypothetically in a similar way to Threadripper or Epyc. This would be a real bomb in the market given the great leap forward that the arrival of the 16 cores on a mainstream platform.

Given this, two questions arise. The first: is there a technical possibility to do so? Well, it is something that we obviously do not know, this free space does not serve us for an affirmation but simply for a reflection. The second: What will AMD do? Well, in the CES 2019 keynote there was not the slightest mention of this possibility, but the answer will be known in the coming months.

Let's also take into account that the die at 7nm could have been located in the center and not in a position that precisely leaves the space to add one more, which continues to increase our doubts. Perhaps they will eventually use it to include a high-performance integrated GPU? We await your opinions in the comments.

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