The delay is not because of the hardware, but the fact that Intel cannot get the software to run properly.

This means for the rest of the year Intel will still need to rely on its SoFIA 3G/3G-R APs to prop up is mobile device AP business and may miss the business opportunities from the 4G market.

Fortunately Intel is so far ahead on the mobile market in terms of market share so it is probably happy to lose a bit of the 4G market which is expected to grow like topsy in the second half of this year.

Intel must be hoping that its software issues will be ironed out early in 2016 when it is hoping for its 14nm SoFIA product line is already planned for late-2016. This could mean that Chipzilla could overlap with the 28nm one from early 2016.

Intel only has a system which uses an independent XMM baseband with an Atom AP for its 4G product lineup, and this has been causing many of its rivals to smirk. Particularly in China where it costs a bomb to make.

Intel has been working on integrating two chips into an SoC for its SoFIA product line since the end of 2014 to improve things. .

SoFIA 4G was originally scheduled for 2015 and then delayed until early 2016. Now with Intel only being able to provide baseband+AP solutions for 4G demand in 2015, the CPU giant may find it difficult to persuade clients that having Intel inside is worth a hill of beans.

Intel's second-generation SoFIA 4G AP, based on a 14nm process, will become available in late-2016 and could put the first-generation SoFIA 4G AP based on a TSMC 28nm process, This means that the 28nm AP to have a shorter life expectancy than a fruit fly fed on an "all American diet/"

Chipzilla might cover its mistake by offering cheap prices for the 28nm SoFIA 4G AP and push the 14nm one to the high-end. Either way its bottom line is once again going to be thoroughly spanked.