If you were hoping to get a P55 board with a shiny new mainstream Lynnfield (Nehalem derived) CPU in July, you can forget it.
If you are lucky, you may see it end of August, if not, September - or later.
In this poor economy, with motherboard manufacturers sitting on piles pf P4x chipset motherboards, Intel has done the smart thing and postponed the launch of some of their planned new products - however much it may displease us from a "shiny new toy" perspective, we can understand it.
Intel has had a 90% drop in profits, and a 25% drop in revenues (which means it took a BIG hit on its profit margins) last quarter, and it has to regroup a bit.
Fortunately motherboard markers are still scheduled to get Lynnfield and P55 samples in February, so we should still see a bunch of different boards once the chips are released.
If you are lucky, you may see it end of August, if not, September - or later.
In this poor economy, with motherboard manufacturers sitting on piles pf P4x chipset motherboards, Intel has done the smart thing and postponed the launch of some of their planned new products - however much it may displease us from a "shiny new toy" perspective, we can understand it.
Intel has had a 90% drop in profits, and a 25% drop in revenues (which means it took a BIG hit on its profit margins) last quarter, and it has to regroup a bit.
Fortunately motherboard markers are still scheduled to get Lynnfield and P55 samples in February, so we should still see a bunch of different boards once the chips are released.
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