Holy cow I didn't know about that! So it's literally they were shooting for gold and then just locked cores that would sometimes work or what?
I've been reading a bit about FX-9XXX series and that boggled my mind. A CPU that was released in 2013, required 220W, you literally had to watercool it and then the performance was sub i7-2700k. It's just mind boggling why they even released it, I get that you will have die hard fans but I mean come on its just so freaking weird.
Then, from my understanding, there were just chips that weren't event close to the FX8350 for 5 years. There are also some Athlon buldozer CPUs for AM4 and in a world where you can literally spend 20€ more and get a Rzyen 1200/2200g their existence is as confusing as it gets.