Term · General Industry
Vapourware
A product announced and marketed but never shipped, or shipped so late and so changed that the announcement was effectively fiction. Applied to silicon that is promised on a roadmap but never tapes out.
- Also known as
- Vaporware
- Type
- Term
- Domain
- General Industry, Engineering culture
Notes
The distinction analysts draw is between a part with public silicon and benchmarks and one that exists only in slides.
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