The specific quote was "We’re planning to put a replacement chip on the market to go up against flash within a year and a half"
and "We have a lot of big plans for it and we're working with Hynix Semiconductor to launch a replacement for flash in the summer of 2013 and also to address the solid-state drive market"
June 2013 is twenty months away, so "a year and a half" is a very reasonable approximation, which it looks like the article writers then approximated again as "18 months"
It's an estimate not an exact length of time. 18 months takes us to April 2013, so maybe they rounded April into "summer" or maybe they rounded 20 months to the nearest .5 of a year. Or maybe they class April as summer anyway.
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The article mentions both 18 months and summer 2013. That's not entirely consistent.
The specific quote was "We’re planning to put a replacement chip on the market to go up against flash within a year and a half"
and "We have a lot of big plans for it and we're working with Hynix Semiconductor to launch a replacement for flash in the summer of 2013 and also to address the solid-state drive market"
June 2013 is twenty months away, so "a year and a half" is a very reasonable approximation, which it looks like the article writers then approximated again as "18 months"
It's an estimate not an exact length of time. 18 months takes us to April 2013, so maybe they rounded April into "summer" or maybe they rounded 20 months to the nearest .5 of a year. Or maybe they class April as summer anyway.
It's not like those two times are way different.
Well summer is December to February, so April is a fair way off...
Perhaps they could do away with the stupid idea altogether and say 2nd quarter 2013 if they can't be more specific.