What’s the issue? 13th gen now cheaper, 14700 adds 4 cores, all chips get a healthy frequency boost, better memory oc support, and you still get more multi core for your money vs Zen.

So there is two things to keep in mind. Its a way for intel to do a new round of publicity for 14th gen, but it also means that they will eat the cost on older gen stuff even if they may still be making 13th gen parts (or even 12th gen? 12100f for example).

I had a huge argument with people with nvidia about this, nvidia essentially did something similar or is planning to with the super series. The super series for 20 dropped and more or less replaced the 20 non supers at their original MRSP. This way, the older 20 series will still sell at similar prices (with a tiny hair cut), and there wasnt a supply of 10 series really to talk about.

But what happened with the 14th gen was that, the 13th gen got a hair cut, but 12th gen got a MAJOR discount, with the 12600K for example going for 153 dollars, for something that launched at 290 dollars that is a drastic cut, and even something similar in the 13400 non K isnt that cheap. Intel is definitely eating some of this cost themselves.

While Nvidia with the super is definitely NOT eating as much of that cost themselves, because even their older stuff that are on the market are selling well, and they thus isnt pushing out a 50 series GPU, but intel is pushing 14th gen because they really have a weak market position and eating the cost of their older stock is one way to help out their channel partners and get more of their goods into the hands of consumers. Both people who shop smart, and people who just buy OEM.