Clovertown, demonstrated last week, used “early silicon”, said Circuit News. The silicon, it said, came from engineering and that demonstrates “Intel is well into the validation process”. The chip will be well suited to databases, financial services and other such heavy applications.
Now we have an official codename, but they mention it will be best suited for intensive situations such as datacenters and banks. I am sure it will be some time before the normal consumer could take advantage of such a chip. Check out the full posting at The Inquirer.