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For what it's worth, I interpreted that image to be a still from the announcement video, which from the article:

> Today’s announcements, accompanied by a video from the CEO of AMD Dr. Lisa Su

So, given that she's an Asian woman, it might be a smaller hand than you were thinking. Nevertheless, it does seem to be a very large component (hence the joke image at the bottom of the article).

Of course it's her, no one else publicly showed a Threadripper yet :)

It is large — 4094 pin socket!

This announcement is essentially two Zen CPUs mounted on the same microchip module (MCM) so yes, the package is "huge" relative to previous CPUs.

MCM is multi chip module

This is a HEDT processor that comes in the package of their server processors (up to four dice and eight memory channels, over 4000 pins total). These are large, because there's a lot in them ;)

The desktop series has a more usual size.

Threadripper and Epyc are huge. The desktop Ryzen is small :)