> What the heck does "already launching this year" mean? Already?

I guess this means that Freescale's first chips based on Cortex-A57 are supposed to be available in volume in 2014 still, whereas most other vendors will likely accomplish this only in 2015 or even later. Also, bringing a chip from announcement to volume availability in less than a year is unusual for Freescale (even though they haven't necessarily accelerated development but rather decided to delay the announcement for when the chips had already entered sample state for a change).