>Nope.
Didn't get why 'nope', 16 cores are the bare minimum, in my eyes, these days and we are talking 2016 even 2017, that's why 16 is the nasty limitation now simply because AMD is fooling around for too long, the moment AMD releases 32 threaded CPU, Intel will be forced to answer speedwise&pricewise which is nice for all users. To me, 5960x appears weak for many heavy textual processing tasks.
>ZEN is one of the most exiting CPU relase AMD has ever made.
Your English is worse than mine, 'has made' implies factuality i.e. the accent is on the completion/perfectness of the action, therefore 'has made' has to be 'is going to make'.
>As an AMD fan im sure thay cad do it.
Sure, I want to buy Zen, I need a powerhouse not some leftover salad i.e. mediocre flip-flopper.
>Suppose they do get 32 threads, but can only run low clocks. How are the 32 threads going to be a game changer? Certainly not for gamers!
You are only partially right, the mere existence of a powerful mainstream, and mostly affordable CPU, will change the programming schemes in game development, if you need good AI and thousands of units acting in a amusing manner you need ... threads to compute their behavior.
As for the current situation where most games use merely up to 4 threads, it is a shame - this is not the future.
>AMD needs this time to cater the more "ordinary" crowd, that uses less cores, but needs high single thread performance.
Yes, this also, but this CPU won't be called Zen, as far as I know, Zen is all about offering CLUSTER-type architecture comprised of many, 16 as minimum, Silvermont-like cores.
If I see Zen with, say, 8 cores, I won't buy it even if it is few dollars price-tagged, there are already stupid-smart-phones with 8 cores. PREPOSTEROUS!
Mobile gadgets will outtech the desktop COMPUTERS!
I need to crunch 50GB of English texts in seconds and desktop world offers only expensive inadequate to the hi-needs weak CPUs.