Intel has brought forward the
launch of Yorkfield
Extreme Edition from Q1 2008 to Q4 2007 bringing pressure to AMD Phenom FX
slated for launch later this year. Intel has not determined the final clock
speed of Yorkfield Extreme Edition but it will be at least 3.33GHz/1333FSB with
2 x 6MB shared L2 cache. Yorkfield and Wolfdale schedule remains unchanged at Q1
2008 and there are 2 SKUs for Yorkfield and 4 SKUs for Wolfdale.