Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 CPU delayed?

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DigiTimes, citing anonymous sources, claims that Intel is pushing back the volume shipment date of its Core 2 Extreme QX9770 processors to February – March of this year. We're not sure where the “delay” is, as far back as November the official launch was Q1 2008.

Intel has pushed back the volume shipment date of its Core 2 Extreme QX9770 processors for the high-end desktop segment to February-March 2008 instead of January as reported previously, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers.
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The fact of the matter is that there is no reason for it to launch a faster processor. I think the QX9770 was a kneejerk PR reaction in case Phenom was actually phenominal. That obviously did not happen, and there is no reason to be pushing current infrastructure to 1600MHz bus. If they did that, what is X48 going to officially support that is special to the high end computer buyer?
 
Sounds like milking the consumer... which is basically a good business strategy.
 
Bottom line... They don't need to. Given AMD's delayed throughput, and a processor lineup that hits more into the "mid-stream" computing, there really is not a niche for 9770.

I'm sure if Phenom stabilizes, and has a decent overclock, Intel will drop the 9770 into the foray to maintain focus / the spotlight on their high-end lineup.

Better luck on the next round AMD, would be nice to have some high-end competition (Pretty sure I said something similar with Penyrn as well)
 
They said Q1 of 2008, why would you assume that means January. The first quarter of 2008 is January, February and March. It sounds like its coming on time to me.
 
Ah who cares? There's no reason for them to release it so it doesn't really matter. Not like it would have been a whole lot faster than their best CPU today so I don't think it'll affect anyone.
 
man.. both nvidia and intel are delaying their products due to AMD/ATI's inability to produce decent offerings at a competitive level. In the end, this always hurts the consumer
 
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