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seems like Intel is willing to cannibalize Skylake-X to hurt Threadripper. I think that means Threadripper must be looming large at Intel.

Honestly The revision-x's are forgettable to begin with, unless you need that many cores (No ECC either).

And people keep falling for it

See:Itanium

Never compare an existing product to one that is not yet being sold. Never

Itanium was such a strange ... event. A complete outlier, it is even from today's perspective not easy to see why it happened.

Most people buying a laptop don't really care or know what generation of the CPU they have. Not convinced it hugely impacts sales

I didn't wait even though I'm excited for what Ryzen mobile chips might bring and frankly an i7-7700HQ is enough for a laptop, if I need more grunt than that I'll switch to a desktop.

It's the bulk enterprise purchases that they're worried about, not individuals. That may include bulk purchases to build laptops, but it's probably more datacenters and high-performance computing they're worried about.

Nice, I never knew what it was called. Thanks!