Intel seems to have deep-seated issues with their PR department writing checks their engineers can't pay out on time for. Not that Intel engineers are bad - on

Intel seems to have deep-seated issues with their PR department writing checks their engineers can't pay out on time for. Not that Intel engineers are bad - on the contrary. But as you pointed out, they've been promising they'd be further than they are now for over 5 years now, and even 10+ years ago when I was working in HPC systems, they kept promising things you should build your systems on that would be "in the next gen" that were not, in fact, there. It seems much like the Bioware Problem(tm) where Bioware got very comfortable promising the moon in 12 months and assuming 6 months of crunch would Magically produce a good outcome, and then discovered that Results May Vary.