The article extends on the previous articles and claims made by SA, most recently this one discussed in another HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12562856

Definitely curious to see if Intel will indeed fail as spectacularly as predicted. Given the underwhelming feeling one's left with seeing the backpedaling on the performance claims, this could be yet another example of crappy/barely usable 1st-gen products, usable 2nd gen.