What's surprising is that there are so many skus - many of which are redundant given the limited core count (i7 and i9 both have 8 physical cores and 16 threads

What's surprising is that there are so many skus - many of which are redundant given the limited core count (i7 and i9 both have 8 physical cores and 16 threads). Rumors are that the next iteration (Alder Lake) will be released end of this year so this could be one of the shortest product cycles for Intel. Makes this number of skus even more perplexing...