DrMrLordX
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Intel added two cores to pretty much every chip in their lineup, finally giving Avg. Joe a solid reason to replace his Sandy Bridge dual-core laptop!
I think that's part of it. I also think a lot of people on Haswell and Broadwell-gen Xeons had active incentive to upgrade early to Skylake-SP due to Meltdown/Spectre (some of the worst performance hits, if I recall correctly, were on older platforms). I think the modems were part of it. I think the chipset shift was part of it. The picture isn't so simple as to say, "Hey Intel outperformed on total revenues, so clearly demand for 14nm is up". It is not that simple. If I had their unit numbers for client group in front of me, maybe I could add that to the picture.