Why is the 6950x a broadwell cpu?

[Abounding5]

I'm curious as to why Intel would use last-gen cpus as their extreme edition. They essentially did the same with Haswell-E, so there's some kind of pattern here. Basically, why isn't the 6950x a Skylake-E processor?

 

[Mr Kagouris]

Broadwell was the first 14nm architecture.

Also, the enthusiast and workstation/server grade gear is always one generation behind. I would assume Intel does this to thoroughly flesh out any issues with a new CPU lineup before putting those CPUs in 0 failure tolerance machines.

 

[dudeman509]

That's how they always do the numbering on the extreme edition CPUs. It's confusing to say the least.

 

[Sakkura]

It's more difficult to build larger chips, yield will always be lower. So when they can move to a new process node with smaller mainstream CPUs they do so, but their high-end enthusiast CPUs will have to wait.