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Intel will probably end of spinning this as the first (more impressive) set of numbers being estimates of the potential limits of the new technology.

Almost certainly those nice round numbers came from some engineers (or more likely, engineering manager) being pressured for 'long term performance estimates of the technology', coming up with something that seemed plausible, and then wrapped up nicely into a marketing presentation.

Or, it might be that intel actually did have something approaching each of those three claims - in three separate embodiments of the product, and is running into problems combining the traits together.

In all cases, I feel for the Intel engineers working on this project right now. Probably all cursing that original reveal.