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Yeah I'm just saying Intel probably won't have any surpirse delays, since they're shipping 32nm desktop chips just fine for the last year. These other fabs / foundries are having issues with 32nm and they just skipped it, although it might have been just to save money and not a technical problem...
I'd say this is fairly optimistic, to say that it could get close in the efficiency. At least when compared to the general opinion that no, they can't get close. Intel also had some advantage called "dual patterning lithography", that should allow them to have a bit more "feature detail" on the chip. Anyways, they've been talking up medfield enough, I don't think they could lie about it. It's not like some software you can patch later, or hide the problems. They already know what targets they need to hit, and I'm sure they had a good plan of how to do it. Intel isn't perfect, but they always bounce back. If moorsetown was a miss, medfield should be a hit.