When you read the article, not really. Dropping the i is pretty much no change at all and the full numbers will still contain the generation in the first two digits. They just won’t advertise 15xxx CPUs as “15th” generation because under the hood, there have always been several different architectures grouped under the same “generation”. The example in the article is a “Core 9 15900K” which isn’t more or less informative than “15th gen Core i9 15900K” would be.
When you read the article, not really. Dropping the i is pretty much no change at all and the full numbers will still contain the generation in the first two digits. They just won’t advertise 15xxx CPUs as “15th” generation because under the hood, there have always been several different architectures grouped under the same “generation”. The example in the article is a “Core 9 15900K” which isn’t more or less informative than “15th gen Core i9 15900K” would be.