Intel Confirms Skylake Xeon D in Early 2018

[IntelUser2000]

Nah, because remember the 8/12/16 Broadwell-D products are faster/better than the server Atoms. I imagine it was just the classic needing to release something just to have something new; and lets face it at the middle tier core counts Skylake-SP isn't any better than Broadwell if not worse because of the hit due to the gimped L3. Hence the need to jack up the TDP/power for Skylake-D to give something different enough to get some sales.

The benchmarks indicate the C3955 beats the 8 core Xeon Ds and comes close to the 12 core ones. It's not even enormously behind in single thread.