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In case of Barcelona, the process wasn't new so they could, should and almost certainly will have started tuning the design at least two years before its release.

Not quite. You cannot start the data-phase of design before you have silicon of the actual design in the fab. Data from other designs are of limited use - they might improve your models, but still you only have models, no data. Besides, the data´-phase of design is co-optimization, i.e. there design is been adopted to process and process adopted to design as well.

Having this in mind, everyone married easily understands why this is appropriately referred to as wedding

I think we'll see the first 'real' Barcelona in Q4/Q1.
Completely d'accord. Samples this year, volume next year.

K.