AMD’s Zen 4 Raphael CPUs will likely max out at 16 cores

There’s a lot to be excited about with AMD’s Zen 4 microarchitecture. For starters, the chips are rumoured to come with TSMC’s leading-edge 5nm process node. Previously, there were strong rumours that AMD could add a third chiplet to Ryzen 6000 to bump the core count up to 24, but reputable leaker ExecutableFix has dispelled that rumour. However, it was probably wishful thinking from the start since AMD already offers more cores than Intel on a mainstream processor. Furthermore, it wouldn’t make sense for AMD to continue adding more cores since it would