Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
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.
3D transistors probably take more time to get prepared for than they anticipated. At least that's my guess.