Quote Originally Posted by BeepBeep2 View Post
The reason I think nobody really cares if Intel delays chips is the fact that they are still over half a year ahead of AMD in process nodes and a significant amount in performance. Its almost like Intel chips are so fast atm there is no desire to upgrade other than to get something else to play with.
unless they showed math of expected savings by not pushing the node, vs the estimated margin increase IB would have, then they have no logical reason to make a real slowdown. right now the benefit of having a product with higher margins seems to be vastly more profitable due to their volume of sales, then it does to worry about a few months of R&D.