Intel Ditching Hyper-Threading with New Core I7-9700k Coffee Lake Processor 8 years ago
This form of "segmentation" is something I've always found appalling. A part like this is no different from a high-end part; it's an identical design that is intentionally damaged so it doesn't cut in to high-end sales. It comes out of the factory fully-featured and Intel charges you extra if you want them to skip breaking it.
The free market, in its beautiful efficiency, leads to the intentional crippling of millions of state-of-the-art chips.