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“Taiwan-based motherboard makers” say that the first Bearlake chipsets, the P35 and G33, are to appear in May.

Bearlake is the codename for Intel’s next generation family of chipsets.

In the third quarter, “market sources” indicate Intel shall release a Bearlake chipset that shall support Wolfdale.

Wolfdale is a codename for a Penryn processor, none of which processors (other sources say) are supposed to debut until 2008.

So, are we to take it that chipsets that support next generation Penryn processors will be available in the third quarter, but that the 45nm Penryn microprocessors they support won’t be available until 2008?

Source: Intel Bearlake chipsets set to arrive in May

AMD should have the second half of 2007 all to itself, if its native quad-core server processors outperform Intel’s processors by as much as AMD says they will.

The reason is that Intel’s competitive response to AMD’s native quad-core shall not debut until 2008.

Source “familiar with Intel’s plans” say that server processors based upon Penryn are not to appear until next year.

Intel “will not begin introducing its 45nm-based quad-core (Harpertown) and dual-core (Wolfdale) processors until 2008″.

Throughout 2007 the quad-core Xeon 5300 series of processors should steadfastly supplant the dual-core Xeon 5100 family.

Cloverton (quad-core Xeon 5300) shall go from 30% to 70% of the Intel DP server market.

While Woodcrest (dual-core Xeon 5100) shall go from 60% to 30%.

One group that appears to be happy about the delay of Penryn are server vendors, because the delay gives them time to focus on developing product lines using the Xeon 5100 and 5300 processors.

Source: Intel to keep 65nm-based processors as main hit for 2-way servers throughout 2007

“Intel’s roadmap” indicates that Santa Rosa (next generation Centrino) shall succeed Napa in 2007.

However, in the second quarter of 2008, another platform shall succeed Santa Rosa. The codename is Montevina.

The Crestline chipset that is to accompany Santa Rosa shall be replaced by a chipset that goes by the codename of Cantiga.

It’s hard to talk about Robson 2.0, since we don’t even have Robson 1.0 yet.

Nevertheless, Robson 2.0 shall be a part of Montevina Centrino.

Robson 2.0 should be able to boot an operating strictly from the NAND flash memory cache.

Whereas Robson is the codename for Intel’s NAND flash memory cache for notebooks, the codename for the NAND flash memory cache for desktops is rather Snowgrass.

Penryn–the processor to be manufactured on the 45nm process technology we have heard so much about of late–shall not appear in notebooks in 2007, rather “by the second half of 2008″.

Source: Intel’s “Montevina” Platform Detailed: Centrino for 2008