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Why would AMD have a larger chance of being unable to deliver? Their track record since 2017 has been nearly spotless, at least on the CPU side. On the GPU side, things are a bigger unknown, though they came through for PS5/Xbox 2(?) so I would not dismiss their ability to get hardware ready for a specific client. If they have neglected anyone, it's the consumer PC market. Now that AMD is using TSMC for nearly everything, they'll be ready on the fab side.
Intel has absolutely no recent record on delivering on the dGPU front. They did have to cancel an entire uarch upgrade (Cannonlake) on the CPU side, along with Gen10 graphics, so that certainly isn't good. Intel could improve their prospects by using an outside fab for Xe. We still haven't seen them deliver a working dGPU product, though.
NV was always an option. POWER/NV wound up in Summit, after all.
I saw the POWER/NVIDIA combo so that's why I don't get the whole AMD was their only option nonsense.
Also, as far as being unable to deliver, well according to Tomshardware Intel already has had a bit of an issue regarding that:
"Intel’s followup Knights Hill products, which never came to market, have borne the blame for the delay of the Aurora supercomputer, which will now feature Intel’s Xe Graphics Architecture. "