The reason why Intel announced it today is to steal some thunder from AMD's "Next Horizon" event today (6 Nov 2018) where AMD will reveal more details on their 7nm datacentre products - probably Epyc 2 codenamed "Rome" and Vega/Navi GPUs.
The reason why Intel announced it today is to steal some thunder from AMD's "Next Horizon" event today (6 Nov 2018) where AMD will reveal more details on their 7nm datacentre products - probably Epyc 2 codenamed "Rome" and Vega/Navi GPUs.