Well, clearly Coffee Lake exists. It's been leaked on Sisoft a few times going back a couple months.
Heck, Cannon Lake 10nm exists. Intel demoed it a long time ago in a laptop.
When the CFL 6C chip is released, aren't people going to complain that it's just another old design SL/KL 14nm part and not anything really new? I can already hear them...
Coffelake as a product that is competing against RYZEN
today doesnt exists, simple as that. You cannot go and buy any CoffeeLake SKUs out there
today.
There is a difference talking about Coffelake architecture and the Coffeelake SKU products (Actual Core i3/5/7 CPUs).
6-core Coffelake SKUs for Socket 1151 will be new products when they will be released.
Today, RYZEN SKUs competitors are the Kabylake and Skylake-X (Socket 1151/2066) that are available on the market. If we have the same conversation 2-3 months later and CoffeLake has been released then we can say RYZEN SKUs competitors are CoffeeLake and Skylake-X but not today.
That's not what people said when KL was released. They said it was just a SL clock increase. A re-brand...
People were talking about the architecture not the SKUs, the actual Kabylake SKUs were not the same as the older Skylake SKUs.