Not sure how that is supposed to excite us, the consumers, since it's not a product we can use, and even if it were, it wouldn't be a product we could use correctly.

They are the technological testbeds for future consumer products. 2.5 and 3D ICs are coming along nicely. Besides, if you focus on consumer tech in the market of the last 8 years, youre sure to be depressed because a lot of consumer oriented tech has gotten worse and not better. TVs and monitors are a great example. Back in 2008 you could buy an RGB LED or WCG-CCFL backlit TV with amazing color for a decent price. For the next several years, all you could buy was cheap W-LED backlit junk unless you were willing to spend thousands for an OLED or pro RGB LED. Only recently have OLEDs and quantum dot enhanced LEDs become available, largely due to the economy improving and allowing for them to be profitable at consumer level prices. If you look at pro monitors in the same time frame, it was continuous improvement. OLEDs and RGB LEDs with huge color gamuts became popular and the GB-r LED backlight became a thing. Meanwhile, companies tried to dupe consumers into buying rebranded junk that had worse picture quality than what people already had! Consumer CPUs werent much different past Sandy Bridge and whatever the last 32nm thing from AMD was that they kept selling and rebranding. 4 cores 8 threads. We even had the joke that was the Haswell refresh. Meanwhile Intels Xeons went from 10 to 22 cores. Now things are getting better though. The stock markets are at record highs and both Intel and AMD are making chips that are finally a real advancement from whats been churned out over the last 8 years or so.

CPUs werent much different past Sandy Bridge and whatever the last 32nm thing from AMD was that they kept selling and rebranding. 4 cores 8 threads. We even had the joke that was the Haswell refresh.

That's the point, that's why someone said there's something to be interested in again. Most people get excited about consumer items they can actually use, not stuff that they can't. I'm not saying people can't be excited about stuff they can't use, i understand that. But the point is exactly what i just quoted, consumers finally have something to be interested in, and lets just hope that makes Intel bring some interesting things out in the next 2-3 years as well.