[nerdy]

Unfortunately the 7980XE does not appear to be available for purchase yet :(

Intel's site says Q3 (which ends this month): https://ark.intel.com/products/126699/Intel-Core-i9-7980XE-X...

And in a blog post they appeared to indicate the 7980XE would be available Sept 25 (at least the 14-core version, which also hasn't yet appeared, depending on parsing): https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-unveils-full-intel-cor...

[CyberDildonics]

There seems to be giant lag between the press releases of these chips and when someone can actually buy them.

[bryanlarsen]

This press release wasn't supposed to go live for a while, but somebody broke the embargo, forcing Intel's hand.

So the availability lag might be worse than normal.