14 DAY TRIAL // Usually, Intel's generations of central processors don't stay in production for too many years. By the time two more generations come and go, the first usually goes out of production. Is phased out, as it were. Ivy Bridge might become an exception.
If things were normal, Ivy Bridge Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs, and Pentium/Celeron for that matter, would start being phased out in 2014.
They are still in good demand though, and this has begun to impact the 2014 roadmap.
There probably won't be any delay in Broadwell's arrival, not a large one anyway, but it could still make things awkward.
Mostly because prolonging the lifespan of Ivy Bridge would have to prolong Haswell too, and this could cause Haswell and Broadwell to coincide, marketing-wise, instead of the former steadily giving up ground to the latter.
Fortunately, this won't affect us normal people much. Even if Intel adjusts CPU shipment proportions for 2014, we'll have at least as many choices as now.