Still half:
And it's overall also half of Zen 2 since it's now one CCX instead two per CCD, and the link is per CCX.
Technically that would make a 32 core Ryzen or a 128 core Epyc possible still without changing the IOD, since on the latter half the CCX links are now unused otherwise.
🤯 But lack of space on the package likely will prevent that, or will it?
Yeah, AMD is obviously sticking to that. Actually there may have been even more activity in the background. Do you recall how Keller was supposedly involved in the planning for Zen 1-3? Now Zen 3 was the rewrite already, and with Zen 2 AMD said they backported some Zen 3 improvements. Also there is now talk about two major design teams leapfrogging each other, with the first team having done Zen 1 and 2, and now the second team being responsible for Zen 3 and 4. This makes me belief AMD skipped the Zen 3 originally planned and rolled that into Zen 2 instead (which was late due to that so AMD created the filler Zen+ for the consumer market instead).