If you hadn’t heard yet, last week we talked about a potential delay to the release of Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge processor.  Well pretty much everything we feared was "kind of" confirmed by Intel’s Sean Maloney when he said:

“I think maybe it’s June now."

Huh.  It’s gets worse though as Maloney apparently was "blaming the push back on the complexity of the new manufacturing process."  That process in particular was the 22nm tri-gate technology that Intel has been touting as one of its biggest developments in recent years. 

Is this completely altered now??

The EETimes story gets more specific with date quotes from Jim McGregor of In-Stat. 

Jim McGregor of In-Stat told EE Times that according to his industry sources in Taiwan, Intel’s Ivy Bridge server parts were only delayed from April 8 until April 29, though the dual core i5 and i7 parts for notebooks had been pushed out from a planned May 13th launch to June 3.

Last week we were hearing that Intel would still launch Ivy Bridge parts in April but wouldn’t send out the mass shipments until June, and while that is still possible, that seems much less likely after hearing Maloney’s words today. 

And if you haven’t had enough bad news for today, there is this comment that pretty much backs up my thoughts that I laid out in our 190th episode of the PC Perpsective Podcast last week:

“It doesn’t really matter because there’s not really any compelling competition right now,” said one industry analyst on condition of anonymity, referring to AMD’s recent lag in the market.

AMD, we need you in our lives so badly.  Please don’t leave us here…alone…