HTC Have you dudes considered that this processor was to be an 8 core all along BUT was supposed to be very high end (as pricey as a 6900K @ $1700+)? Thanks to AMD, they'll be targeting a much more affordable price!

HTC That said, wasn't Intel having lots of problems with their 10nm process? Supposedly, they won't be able to maintain skylake's / coffeelake's speeds when they move to 10nm.

No, that is 100% untrue. The HEDT cores have a different design with core interconnect, memory controllers, QPI etc. If Intel put a HEDT CPU on the mainstream platform you could tell immediately by the much larger die. The mainstream dies does also have integrated graphics.Even the extra cores in Coffee Lake was planned years ahead. Intel's architecture is very tightly integrated, and not (yet) modular to allow multi-chip modules. They can't slap on new cores late in the design process, Intel always designs the different chip variations from the beginning. Late in the cycle they are only able to decide to disable features, tune clock speed and voltage, and of course price.The only thing AMD can affect in the short term is pricing, and we've yet not seen any significant changes there. No everything revolves around Zen, which some like to believe.It's not like Intel is sitting on better CPUs waiting for competition. Competition is good, but it takes many years to affect changes. Ice Lake was supposed to be here already, but is running late and might be further postponed until 2019. The earliest design to be possibly affected by AMD would be the successor of Ice Lake; "Sapphire Rapids"(?) coming in 2020/2021.Quite possible.On a positive note though; the jump from Intel 14nm to Intel 10nm will be massive in terms of transistor density, a better jump than 22->14nm relatively speaking.