I think it's the right path for AMD to nail down and test this 8 Core part before building the 16 core part or adding in the GPU, Maybe they will do both? Take your pic, 16 core or 8 core APU. That would be funky.
I wonder if this will come with a cooler? Or will it be just the chip and you buy the aftermarket cooler... When I bought a thread ripper I got the enermax to go along with it, it died a horrible death... Not the chip but the cooler. My thought was to push the threadripper as fast as it could go on water at reasonable temps... But, after that was a mess, I bought a high end noctua NH-U14S went back to air cooling. While it allowed for small OC bump... It's not an OC monster as you would get from a custom loop. My point to all this is... I hope this time around, AMD will get its act together and offer better cooling for its products. I heard that this chip was running on air, but a hefty cooler to benchmark it. So.... I'm kinda wondering, if they did make a 16 core version of this chip, they would need some serious cooling ... Or even possibly a water cooler that is included with the CPU. That would be a first.