According to Linus Tech Tips on the Wan Show the reason why the Broadwell-E is so unattractive when compared to Xeon chips is that they don't want to cannibaliz

According to Linus Tech Tips on the Wan Show the reason why the Broadwell-E is so unattractive when compared to Xeon chips is that they don't want to cannibalize their Xeon processors for workstation so the 6950X is something that you don't get much of a tangible performance boost per $. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfj-Rq9bX40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfj-Rq9bX40 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9N6rzQ_3M# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9N6rzQ_3M#