Peter Clarke over at EETimes ponders the potential reasons behind the delay. In his opinion, it's either the delay in the formation of the formation of the spinoff company set to take over the production of the memory, or that Intel had to do a respin.

"The original deadline for the memory venture was supposedly Jan. 1, 2008, analysts said. At that time, Numonyx was supposed to be a full-fledged and independent company, they added. The delay stemmed from having to revise financing after banks committed to about half the loan amount as originally planned."