Also, the reality is that the consumer market is a massive beneficiary of this whole scheme. The server market is effectively subsidizing consumer processors to the tune of billions, if consumers had to pay full freight on their dies prices would be several times higher than they are.
if consumers had to pay full freight on their dies prices
would be several times higher than they are.
The fundamental processes of producing an equal die space SoC as a Xeon on the same (node) is likely roughly equal cost (or I imagine the fabs as a service would go out of business). So saying Intel -needs- the consumer market to subsidize their server line is a total lie.
Intel puts an extreme markup on their server class processors, and a milder mark up on the consumer segment