The reason for this is that Intel wants to cock a snook at AMD and show that now it's capable of executing on its plans, and doing so swiftly.
There's already Clovertown silicon and while Intel is promising nothing to its partners, it feels that being able to release a quad core in Q4 will be quite a coup.
Intel wants to launch Clovertown in 2006
Posted on Friday, February 17 2006 @ 0:07 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck