After promising many new products, Intel company began to systematically delay their announcement periods. Delay in the deliveries of 45 nm four core processors series Core 2 quad is only one examples. The chipset Intel X48 was planned to appear during January, and now it were detained until February or March. But here almost all producers demonstrated their motherboards on base of this chipset.
Recently appeared information about the delay in the announcement of processor Core 2 extreme QX9770 (3.2 GHz). Officially the support of this processor is with chipset Intel X48 due to the ability to work with 1600 MHz bus.
Associate reported that the announcement of Intel X48 is now planned on March.