Staggered Shipping Dates

8/5 - One of the things that NVIDIA started doing was to have products fully available at the time of their launch. This is something that other chip manufacturers have tried to emulate, but have had trouble doing.

While the launch date of the Core 2 processors was July 27, Intel is going with staggered shipping dates.

Only the Core 2 Extreme was readily available at the time of launch.

The Core 2 Duo desktop processor is to become available in the first part of August, any day now, in fact.

The mobile Core 2 Duo was originally expected late August or early September. The launch of the mobile processor was moved up to coincide with the desktop launch because the two chips are so similar that there was little point in separate launches. However, the ship date for the Core 2 Duo mobile processor remains as it was, late August.

Maybe the need for a new mobile chip was not as pressing as the need for new server and desktop chips, where Intel was getting beat up on the benchmarks. At any rate, the server version of the Core microarchitecture, the Xeon 5100 series, became available in June, the desktop versions are either shipping now or soon to ship, and the mobile version is scheduled to ship late August.

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