The ≤10-core stuff was planned already, yes, aside from perhaps the pricing. But it's the new, very-high-core-count CPUs Intel hastily announced with no real d

The ≤10-core stuff was planned already, yes, aside from perhaps the pricing. But it's the new, very-high-core-count CPUs Intel hastily announced with no real details and without even warning their partners first that look like a reaction to Ryzen, specifically Threadripper. Those CPUs might be a problem for Intel. They can only make so many high-core-count Xeons and now some of the best chips will be headed to the HEDT market rather than servers. Also, thrusting chips with almost twice as many cores as originally planned onto motherboards which aren't designed for them and which already have seen overheating problems might not end well.