Top Epycs will be able to have up to 384 cores
The upcoming AMD desktop processors based on the Zen 5 architecture will not bring an increase in the number of cores. But this is expected for Zen 6 architecture.
According to recent data, there will be three types of chiplets for this architecture: with 8, 16 and 32 cores per chiplet.
The latter option will be available for more compact Zen 6C cores, which will allow, for example, to create Epyc server CPUs with 384 cores while maintaining a configuration with 12 chiplets per CPU. But 16 cores per chiplet will be available for regular Zen 6 cores. And this will allow AMD to create a 32-core top-end Ryzen 9 10950X (presumable name). Of course, it’s not a fact that we will actually see such a processor, but technically it will be very easy to do, since all Ryzen 9 in all generations have two chiplets.
Considering that 16-core Ryzen 9 appeared at AMD back in the Ryzen 3000 line, the company may well decide to double the number of cores.