No it's not strange if you consider how rumours and rumour-copying works on the internet. I'm sure if we posted some credible sounding or looking rumour, it wouldn't take long to make it to wccftech to pick it up and then all the others might run with it. And chances are that nowhere in that chain would anyone check the facts.
True. Given how the CCX layout is they can only make 4-6-8-12-16-24-32. If they could make 2-3-5 core CPU they could have done it for the mainstream also.
All the other CPUs are WCCFTECH rumour mill, which was distributed as always by others, without checking facts. AMD never announced anything until last week with the 12/16 core CPUs.
Possibly some non X versions, if they have failed chips, but if the market intake is big (which will be), I don't see them making the choice to lose money.
1920X and 1950X are very well priced, better than the whole X99 and X299 Intel lineup. And here we see the roles reversing. Is Intel now that has no products to compete with AMD, and AMD doesn't see the reason to sell more cheaply and lose money.
Intel 12-18 core CPUs not only are overprised, they cannot deliver the same performance as the 1950X, because they are way lower clocked and naturally so. Or else who could run (assuming electrically possible) a ~700W CPU, and how to cool effectively that thing? It will require minimum of 2 EK XE 480s to do the job and copper tubes because plastic ones will melt. Hell motherboards will melt. (assuming can be supplied with 700W).
On the Vega discussion some laughing at the 400W the Vega FE needs (when overclocked with modded BIOS), but shouldn't they laugh at the power consumption the X299 platform has?
Hell they should be laughing at the 7700K power consumption compared to the 1800X, let alone the 1700.
Just stating the obvious.
I don't see it? 
but thought it was today for some reason.
