You could write a different story. Intel doesn't want that's a public information.
(unknows reasons: just not provide yet yorkfield (65nm stock, fab...), minor "bug" with maximum effect on nvidia chipset... Even if Nvidia use to have bugs, not sure that Intel could explain ES work but retail not...) then somebody speak to much and now they have ask to remove any confirmation because there is no problem with intel chipset (xeon) and they don't want a negative image.
When you take the PR manager, Dan Snyder comment:
"45nm Core 2 Quad launch is planned for Q1'08, and we are still on track for that. We can't comment on web speculation."
He doesn't answer, there is no problem. He just answer "yorkfield will be there Q1".
Anyway, we don't know the truth but I don't think that hardware.fr has wrote: "intel confirmed" without reason. And as there is a second source (pcinpact) with more detail. I don't believe that was only a misunterpretation of the guy of hardware.fr.
So we will not have any public confirmation by Intel, and just have to wait to know and techreport is on the same line:
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/13756
"The late February/early March schedule mentioned by Hardware.fr is a far cry from the January 20 date that's been quoted on other sites, but it still fits within Snyder's Q1 2008 time frame. If Hardware.fr is right and the chips have indeed been postponed, though, that could give AMD enough time to prep for Intel's 45nm assault by rolling out bug-free, B3 revision Phenoms and introducing models with higher clock speeds."
:shrug: