2 Duo until 2011, Core 2 Duo E8700 @ 3.5GHz soon

Intel has been telling its partners that Core 2 Duo's and Quads are here to stay until 2011 for the mainstream and value segments; and that it intends to do a refresh to some of its chipsets to support DDR3-1066 .
P45 already had DDR3 support, but G45 did not - so G45 is getting DDR3 and some more media support; however I personally think most people will stick to DDR2, as with an FSB based Core 2 system, there really is little gain with DDR3, so the lower cost DDR2 makes more sense.
In another bit of news, a 3.5GHz Core 2 Duo E8700 was apparently listed in Belgium for E259 - that is a seriously fast stock speed for a Core 2, and it has 1333MHz FSB, 6MB of L2 cache and 65W TDP.