Intel Clarksfield Chips Could Launch Late Sept
Intel always gives very loose time frames for release dates, but now Taiwanese publication Digitimes always taps its local motherboard contacts for more specifics.
According to Digitimes, Intel's next-generation chips for notebooks, codenamed Clarksfield, CPUs will debut around the end of September and October in the flavors of Core 2 Extreme XE at 2 GHz, Core 2 Quad P2 at 1.73 GHz and Core 2 Quad P1 at 1.6 GHz.
Of course, those names are subject to change, especially since Intel said that all Clarksfield mobile chips would carry the Core i7 moniker.
New Celeron chips for the mainstream ultra-thin and light segment for notebooks are also set for a late September debut.
The desktop-bound Lynnfield chips along with the P55 are supposed to be unveiled slightly ahead of the mobile versions.
As usual, Intel did not provide comment on the accuracy of the reports, but it won't be long before we find out.

Lower clock speeds, higher IPC - its more evolution, rather then revolution.
Instead of investing in ways to increase battery life.
I'd rather have a core2duo laptop that runs 5 hours on battery, than a corei7 that does the same, but can only run 2 hours at most.
Besides, a clockspeed of 1,6Ghz could not really be called an improvement.
My 3 year old laptop from 2006 runs at 1,66Ghz; I'd at least expected 1,8Ghz to be the lowest, 2Ghz the middle, and 2,4Ghz the higher end model!
Besides obvious differences in architecture between something like a Pentium M @1.7GHz and a Clarksfield Quad Core at a similar speed, you should consider that it seems that Intel is adapting to a strategy where the processor may be at a modest clockspeed, but have an aggressive turbo mode. I could be mistaken, but I'd probably expect to see some kind of Lynfield-esk turbo mode present in Clarksfield, which would make the chips pretty adaptable as far as efficiency and performance is concerned... having potential to be a pretty decent step forward from the current mobile quad cores.
NO kidding, that't why you don't buy that junk. Intel fan boys will probably have to up grade the chipset to get the best performance.
I'll stick with cheap'o AMD platform. Spend the savings on a bigger LED TV!
Do you upgrade the CPU in your Laptop periodically? No? Why are you talking about chipset upgrades? Oh, you didn't realize this was a news item about mobile CPUs? How embarrassing for you.
You also left the O out of OLED. NO kidding.
Second, a 3 ghz chip is not necessarily faster than a 1.6 ghz chip. It depends on architecture.
So don't go out and buy one if you have a current good laptop (I recommend a high IOPS SSD if you have an SATA connector). If you have a laptop that needs replacement, I recommend one of these if you want to spend that kind of money (I've heard they won't be cheap).
screwing people with faster more efficent cpus? with higher price + higher premium? there a business not a charity.
ever hear of LED LCD TV's and unless he is talking about getting an 11" TV i don't think he ment OLED LOL
EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://bit.ly/IDF09products (plus stats on the associated Chipset)