I read that Nehalem will have integrated DDR3 memory controllers, so i hope we'll be seeing a memory war to get DDR3 prices down...

melgross, They say 2nd half because it sounds better than "sometime this year, but definitely not 3rd quarter".

It's of course perfectly on time if it's delivered, as stated, anywhere between July1st and December 31st. However, if they were actually aiming to the 3rd quarter, they'd say "third quarter" and not 2nd half. 

See the irony now? They said something, without saying anything at all. A 6 month window is not a release date, and it's pretty hard to miss. Has nothing to do with Intel previously being on the spot...there's no real spot to hit with Otti's statement.


Seems like new round of advertising is to peak in ~3Q'8 for Intel. Get their attention with New Desktops & hit Em Hard with Nahalem.
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Ed. Adds: its GTX 260, (not250) dumbie & nvidia wouldn't be so confused if had own FAB.

Like the 45nm mainstream quad cores which were due in January and are still hard to get even today, you can only easly purchase the Q9300, the Q9450 and Q9550 are still rare birds which were supposed to be available in Jan 2008

The next GPUs are out in mid June, 16th and 18th i think.

Not really. The past two plus years, Intel has not only met its schedule, but often beaten it. Interestingly, Apple often gets the parts before everyone else. we might even see Nehalem Mac Pro's introduced during the ADC in June, though that's an outside chance.

Yeah, should be more December 31st 23:59:59 than July 1st 0:00:01!

their 2nd half ship time means it could be around late 2008... that's why they prefer to say it 2nd half rather than the last quarter, which sounds like on-time or earlier than expected rather than later than expected...

2nd half usually means Q4. Q4 usually means December. ;-)

So will this be july, around the same time as next gen Nvidia cards ?