Intel’s Xeon Platinum 8284 CPU: When 300 MHz Cost $5,500

Hah. "300Mhz? that was between PPro and P2, they didn't have Xeon then" ... and then go read the article and realize that yes, i really would've been more interested in reading about 20 year old Intel secrets than modern ones.

Does anyone know what is the reason for this many SKUs? Marketing, production issues, or both?