https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/02/intel_xeon_second_gen_launch/

In a highly orchestrated global maneuver, Chipzilla today launched, to much of its own fanfare, its second generation of Xeon Scalable Processors for servers – chips codenamed internally as Cascade Lake.

A while ago, executives at Intel-rival AMD, which made a big splash of its own with its 32-core Epyc server-class CPUs, told us they were braced for a response from Chipzilla. And here it is.