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  • Why does it make (commercial) sense for AMD/Intel to create so many models?

    Because there is demand for various types of systems. And on top of that, if you make a chip with 8 cores and two are defective… just sell a 6 core chip instead of throwing it away.

    What are their incentives?

    Money

    What would happen, if they would reduce the amount of different CPUs they offer? (Is there historical knowledge?)

    They would lose customers to competitors in that space. When AMD didn’t make EPYC chips, all servers were Intel Xeon.