With the reality of high performance Arm processors from Apple and Qualcomm threatening Intel's market share in the client computing space, Intel is working on learner more PCB-efficient client SoCs that can take the fight to them, while holding onto the foundations of x86. The first such form-facto...
No one really cares about Intel’s nodes pre-18A, and that theory doesn’t work regardless.
Also, Intel needs to prove the node in their own products before others will bite.