>In 2013 DOE presented their exascale vision of one exaFLOP at 20 MW by 2020.[6] Aurora was first announced in 2015 and to be finished in 2018. It was expected to have a speed of 180 petaFLOPS[7] which would be around the speed of Summit. Aurora was meant to be the most powerful supercomputer at the time of its launch and to be built by Cray with Intel processors. Later, in 2017, Intel announced that Aurora would be delayed to 2021 but scaled up to 1 exaFLOP. In March 2019, DOE said that it would build the first supercomputer with a performance of one exaFLOP in the United States in 2021.[8] In October 2020, DOE said that Aurora would be delayed again for a further 6 months and would no longer be the first exascale computer in the US.[9] In late October 2021 Intel announced Aurora would now exceed 2 exaFLOPS in peak double-precision compute.[10]
So you announced a machine in 2015 to be delivered in 2018, so a project to take 3 years. In 2017 you then announced you're not going to deliver it at all. You announce a delay to deliver something different in 3 years. That's not a delay, that's just scrapping the project and starting a new one. Just because you call it the same thing doesn't mean anyone believes you.
I do wonder how much cash Intel rinsed out of the DOE for delivering nothing. You would've thought that since the DOE announced a target of 1 Exaflop in 2020, and Intel delivers 0 exaflops, that Intel would make a big loss on this, I bet they didn't.