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A comment on AMD Ryzen 3000 announced.

Re:AMD Ryzen 3000 announced by IlegCowcat on Monday May 27, 2019 @08:43AM (#20021671)
My guess: standing by for a last 2019 or 2020 refresh. AMD simply doesn't have to play their full hand right now to be competitive. Going to 16 core on AM4 looks to be trivial on paper since they're already doing 12 core: just a matter of clock speeds and core voltage to make it happen inside of AM4 parameters.
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Re:AMD Ryzen 3000 announced by tracker1 on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @02:03PM (#20032683)
My guess is their chiplets may have defective cores that are being disabled, and they aren't getting high enough yeilds on 8-core chiplets to release a 16c pair CPU yet.

I doubt they'd hold back on offering a significant bump over Intel's current offering with a 16c/32t mainstream cpu.

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