I think one of the best outcomes of a competitive CPU market is that the artificial limitations Intel introduced to segment their CPU market are going to have to die.

It's pretty clear that now AMD is speed competitive, people will look at features and this artificial segmentation will push more people to AMD.

Eg, from the article:

You may notice the Silver and Bronze tiers of Xeons are gone, as are the -M SKUs. This leaves the workstation parts crippled, you can’t get more than 768GB per socket on parts meant for heavy memory intensive tasks like CAD, FEA, and modeling large data sets.... AMD’s Epyc on the other hand can put up to 2TB in a single socket, 4TB with 256GB DIMMs versus Intel’s 756GB, an artificially enforced cap so DIMM side is irrelevant.

Also, the Xeon 8180 is $10,000?! I used to spec servers, and I don't remember seeing CPUs anywhere near that price. Is that common in the workstation market?