Those CPUs existed but would never have made it to the HEDT segment if not for TR. Even the board partners were not in the loop regarding that announcement. So keep telling yourself they would have released those CPUs at those prices without any competition.
Says who? SKL-X 6 to 10C are also Xeons, thats why they use mesh and are bad at games. TR are also Epycs btw.
Original SKL-X launch date was always August-September, they did hurry up SKL-X and CFL-S because of Ryzen, but 12C to 18C are now coming out around the original date. Now in the hell they took Xeons back in March, validated them as SKL-X SKU, adding 80% the number of cores the LGA2066 socket was originally designed for according to you and launched them in the date SKL-X was supposed to be launched to begin with?
If they had the Xeons they did not even need to do so in the first place, as workstations whould use Xeons like they did before.
Sorry, but that is your imagination.
Ill remind you why that rumor started:
1) Someone said 12C to 18C SKU were not launching until 2018. ->Fake.
2) Someone said 6C to 10C were LCC HEDT chips and 12C to 18C MCC/HCC Xeons -> Fake they all are Mesh server chips.
But people is insisting in this.