Dunno, I think that's quite a good question... At first I wanted to say "they are based on a modular setup, so you'll have true 4/6/8 chips", but then it clicked: These aren't like CPUs where you can just socket in a module after it's been fabed lol So you'll have to start our with a chip being 4/6/8, and if it ends up having bad modules, one can only assume it would have them turned off. Though there might be a means to laser cut the "power line" to essentially turn off that module completely, so then it wouldn't be a 4C 120W chip because the other 2 modules are still being powered.

I don't think, though this is a total barely-educated guess, that AMD is going to be having just 8C dies fabed and disable the cores (by whatever means) to have them meet their respected CPU model. It'd be easier to do I guess, but I feel as though they went with this module design for some reason similar to the whole "modular" thought. *shrug* I'm not going to pretend to know how things are going to work, due to the limited amount of info we have (and that seems to be AMD's plan heh), but that is just how it makes sense to me

(Off topic: XLR8, you're not by chance "bOingball" are you? I only ask due to your forum avatar heh)