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The corresponding thread count has increased by much more than 4x.

Has it? The i7-5960X was 8C/16T, Ryzen 9 9950X (and variants) are 16C/32T. Even the Threadripper PRO 9000 WX is 96C/192T and supports a staggering 2TB of RAM.

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