This isn't a product announcement FYI. This is Intel letting us know they're changing their naming scheme. Xeon E7-XXXX = Xeon Platnium Xeon E5-XXXX > $1k =

This isn't a product announcement FYI. This is Intel letting us know they're changing their naming scheme. Xeon E7-XXXX = Xeon Platnium Xeon E5-XXXX > $1k = Xeon Gold Xeon E5-XXXX < $1k = Xeon Silver Xeon E3 = Xeon Copper Saved you a click. Their making this change for the new Skylake-EP lines which have been rolling out _slowly_ as their preferred partners (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) get first pickings. If your interested in benchmarks the Skylake-X consumer CPU's are the same micro architecture and there are Gamer/Work station oriented reviews.