Intel Corp (INTC)

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Merced was in development for over 6 years.


So, in that case then, intuitively, the 5 year Nacona plan claim doesn't make sense. Consider..... a brand new chip core, Merced, from scratch took 6 years. Nacona is not brand new chip from scratch. It's Prescott core, with EM64T added. Therefore, I think, a more applicable comparison would be, how long was Opteron in development, and how long would it have taken with intel's resources? If it took previous intel chip designers 6 years for a brand new core Merced, and I'm wrong about Nacona being reactive, and you are correct that it currently takes 5 years for intel to design Nacona "extensions" with core already completed, then that doesn't say too much for the skills of the current intel chip designers, now does it