the above article is pretty misleading at times.
It says Zen "will feature no fewer than 32 cores" then says Zen "will feature up to 32 cores."
Not that I'll be buying any 32-cores CPU's. The author is confusing the Zen brand with a particular Zen processor which makes reading this confusing.
Not only that he talks about the two, 16-core CPU's right after mentioning SMT so confuses that as well. Probably the worst article I've ever read.
*This business of putting two, 16-core CPU's to make a 32-core CPU is probably fine for the intended server market. It's got NOTHING to do with the desktop so we'll get proper 8-core CPU's that are likely 8C/16T (hyperthreaded CPU's or what AMD calls "SMT")