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Just what is it about the phrase get stuffed you don't understand?
Nehalem will ship on time
NEHALEM will ship on schedule announced Intel CEO, Paul Otellini, on Wednesday.
Chipzilla’s next generation of 45nm processors have been scheduled for release in the second half of 2008, and it looks like the company is on track to deliver on its promise.
At an annual shareholder meeting Otellini said, "Nehalem ... is still scheduled to launch in the second half of the year", and added that the firm would up its output of processors made on the new 45 nm technology.
Otellini went on to say: "We are on track to cross over in (the third quarter) of this year, so more than half our processors will be made on 45 nanometers."
There you have it. Straight from the horse’s mouth. µ
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2nd half usually means Q4. Q4 usually means December. ;-)
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...
So will this be july, around the same time as next gen Nvidia cards ?
Yeah, should be more December 31st 23:59:59 than July 1st 0:00:01!
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.
The next GPUs are out in mid June, 16th and 18th i think.
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
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.
Back to Back Ticker Tape Parades.
thomas drashek

Ed. Adds: its GTX 260, (not250) dumbie & nvidia wouldn't be so confused if had own FAB.
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.

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...