An interesting observation, which is even more damning for Intel: moderately multicore CPUs from AMD are made in an effective and efficient way, while Intel, despite boasting about their advanced packaging technology, is slow to adopt heterogeneous chiplets and is paying the price of this technological rigidity. This is in addition to miserable failure with new processes.

Do you see getting the most of limited 7nm production capacity as "cheating"? The only fair comparison is in the resulting performance and TDP, and Intel remains seriously behind.