It is not that Zen is necessarily limited it eight cores by some technological limitation . Indeed , AMD has released details of a massive 32-core Zen chip called Naples . But that’s designed for high-end servers . Moreover the Zen architecture is based on quad-core modules – a word we hesitate to use , thanks to its association with the failed Bulldozer architecture,and , indeed , AMD is avoiding in favor of quad-core “complex” Wherever , AMD is not in the position , financially , to tape out endless variations of the and dual-module Zen chips for PCs at launch , and hence quad and eight-core CPUs.