Contacted a buddy in D1D at Oregon about this SS and for what Nehalem info I could get out of him.

He says:
1) not a fake, but CPU-Z is off on several things (he won't tell exactly what)
2) Nehalem boots and runs stable under load on all major OSes
3) Intel could have it "rushed" to market in 2 months if need be, but they don't feel the competitive pressure to do so (thanks AMD).
4) most of what is being worked on now are the chipsets for the various platforms (desktop, server, etc.)



And yes Shintai, this is all on just my word. So don't bother thread crapping my post, time will prove one (or both of us) right.