Intel has already announced that it will start shipping desktop and server processors based on the new Nehalem architecture in Q4 2008. The desktop chips would get a new name Core i7, where as the server chips will continue using the same name Xeon. But PC World is reporting that users will have to wait much longer to get their hands on the mobile version of Nehalem Architecture.
Intel said on Monday that the mobile version of Nehalem would be in production beginning in second half of 2009. Intel didn’t give any specific date when the mobile processors will be available commercially. But it’s usually about a month after Intel start mass production. The mobile processors based on Nehalem architecture are codenamed Clarksfield. Intel will produce the processor using the same 45nm manufacturing technology used in present generation mobile processors.
Earlier, it was rumored that Intel will start shipping the Clarksfield mobile processors in second quarter of 2009. And if the news is true, the new processor shipment will be delayed by few months, and that should give AMD sometime to catch-up with Intel.