content: The reason is that they were unable to ramp up 10nm production. They backed out of it and moved back to 14nm. This led to shortages of newer CPU's that were originally slated to be on 10nm. Intel is having some real problems these days. Our shop has returned to using AMD, Ryzens are a great buy. Only when a customer requires video transcoding do we select Intel. With Intel's recent money grab by removing multithreading from the latest Core i7's, Significantly more costly Core i9's are used to optimize productivity without moving to much higher cost Xeon's.