Intel's new P35 should boost motherboard ASPs to over $100US. Intel's upcoming E2000 processors will put the old Pentium D 900 series on clearance. AMD's Barcelona chip launch schedule is up in the air, that's not good news for AMD...

The sources noted that AMD has informed them that the introduction of Barcelona will be delayed until August or September, instead of the originally planned June. However, the sources also noted that this schedule is still subject to change. The Barcelona CPU samples they have currently are not the final versions and bugs are still being discovered, they added.