Good to hear. It confirms something for me.

It was my understanding that AMD was going in that direction with Navi GPU, so I am not surprised its also with the CPU.

The way it is implemented is "game changing" -- as I remember.

The basic cores are small but designed from scratch to be a new way to assemble large numbers of cores or shaders in a single package. They make small cores (CPU/GPU) that can be "chained" together and "act like one core" (not like dual, quad, etc CPU or dual, quad, etc GPU -- no SLI or Crossfire issues). So, in principle cores can be "in the dozens or hundreds" -- but act like a single chip.

Small cores lead to very low losses during fabrication (they throw away small numbers of bad cores). Thereby keeping them affordable.

Its one of the reasons I felt the future was all about cores (not clocks above 5GHz). Of course, I am speculating to an extent. We'll see how it goes.