Actually I do think Intel has both the highly skilled engineers and equipment to do exactly this. I'm not saying they could add that many cores to their existing highest core count die but certainly can to a lesser die. Intel has the means and ability to execute something like this based on pre-existing architecture with a 6 month turnaround if they so wish, this is even more so the case with the move to the scalable mesh architecture.
What AMD did with Threadripper and EYPC is a fair amount more simple than what Intel has to do as well but still fits in the with MCM Zen design purpose that they laid out from the start. It's not unbelievable that AMD could have a very short turnaround on the Threadripper design since it is very much EYPC with less active dies, that is not a hard thing to do architecture permitting.
Also I'm not implying either AMD or Intel knee jerk'd anything, you can have basic ideas or concepts without any intent to execute them unless certain trigger points are meet i.e. Threaripper's existence.
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