This is the oldest, most obvious and predictable VLSI product design strategy and should suprise no one.

However with Threadripper AMD really “flexed” too hard, too aggressive.

$4000 gets you 32 cores, but from 2 logic dies you can never obtain the maximum memory bandwidth.

In fact, strictly speaking the 8 channel memory layout is wasted on the 32 core chip.

Need to spend $9,000 for the 64 core chip, or else you are basically excluding features

Even before the RAMPocalypse. ($3,000 for 128 GB registered ECC ram) an entry level CPU-workstation at $12,000 seems like insanity on AMDs part.

And no this has nothing to do with scarcity.

Threadripper represents the MOST MATURE end-stage of each processor revision, 2 years worth of solid yield improvements at TSMC BEFORE even shipping Acer-exclusive parts for their 1st access products