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I was very clear on this already.

1. Intel said it will be three fabs in 45nm until recently.
2. Then it announced metal gates in this node, and by the same time changed communication to four fabs.

Not more - not less.

Besides, metal gates are known to be a manufacturing challenge. The relevant publications are not publicly available on the net, at least not without subscriptions. So I cannot link to these.

On a sidenote, i do not even think about accusing Andy Bryant for lying or being overly optimistic with his three fabs portrayal. I take this as Intel apparently changed plans. They are allowed to whenever they want and as often as they want. Same goes for AMD, naturally.

K.