They've always been there. He's skipping all the mobile/embedded/high-GPU variants for the predecessor to make things look worse for 8th gen. There have alway

They've always been there. He's skipping all the mobile/embedded/high-GPU variants for the predecessor to make things look worse for 8th gen. There have always been U, H, Y, R, and sometimes C variants for most of those prior generations. Each die gets a codename, just like now.