1. Barcelona/Agena is over-engineered for 65nm, and Deneb fits 45nm like second skin. Partially true, as the new size is indeed more manageable, but without fab specs we cannot comment on performance.

2. Hand picked ES. I'm on this one, otherwise there wouldn't be a leak either way. But on the other hand, see Macci and 3Ghz Phenom ES fiasco. If they learnt they would keep the humility on board.

3. Fudzilla on 3Ghz Deneb. They say it's gonna launch this year, it has to be competitive with Nehalem pricing, hopefully under the 2.83Ghz one but above the 2.66 (which I deem a nearly perfect pricing if it CAN OC to 4G.) If such a chip is possible at "125"W, 1.475 volts for 4Ghz might not be a big stretch.