Even though the Wolfdale version (Dual Core) will indeed be released in mid January, the Yorkfields on the other hand have been delayed due to a bug that apparently made the test systems over at Intel's laboratories simply crash. It was found during a recent validation procedure. It is a bug found in very rare cases, but Intel has decided they had to delay them all (except the recently released Extreme edition, more on that below) to fix the potential (existing, but rare) bug.
Strangely, the QX9650 has been released (as we know of course) and should be affected by the bug. However the Xeon models are supposedly not affected at all. The important thing to take into consideration is that the author of the article updated it later on and wrote: l'information vient de nous être confirmée officiellement par Intel., which means that the information has been confirmed by Intel themselves. The delay is of a two months period (approximately), pushing the release to around late February or early in March. I wanted to point at it if it wasn't mentioned in another thread. If there's another thread about it please ignore.
