Generally speaking A1 or A2 revisions go retail unless the company are REALLY confident then even A0 revisions can creep in to retail channels in the early days but it seems like AMD are making absolutely sure Zen hits the ground running so I'd think A1 will go retail. I'd also think a 8 core Zen would be at least -20% of a 5960X if they are serious about competing with intel again but AMDs rep is so badly damaged due to incompetent management before Lisa Su I think they need to hit harder to inspire confidence again in AMD as a brand so I'd hope their aiming for a 8 core Zen to be -12% that of a 5960X at least and price it at around 250, 8 core is long overdue to be the norm. Lets hope AMD handle this right because they could seriously curb stomp intel with intel saying its going to be 2018 before even poxy 6 core becomes the norm for them.