Buzzwords and bingo no.11

A press release from an IT company landed in my inbox with the following passage

The NVIDIA APX 2500 applications processor, which is the culmination of 800 man years of engineering . . .

What does this mean? That one person has been working since the middle ages to get this bit of kit to work? Has it taken this long because they are inefficient? To put it into context, I've worked out that it takes about two man years to produce a single copy of The Times newspaper. It's hardly the sort of thing you would want to plaster on the side of the trucks that get the papers out onto the streets.

Sometimes, these kinds of terms are useful on the factory floor. Let's leave them there.