Those looking forward to constructing a PC around Intel's Nehalem-based mainstream platforms might need to go back to the drawing board as the Larabee builder has decided to delay the release of its Havendale processors. Expected to be launched together with the Lynnfield processors in Q3 2009, the Socket 1160 Havendale CPUs, which feature integrated graphics, are now scheduled to enter production in Q4 2009 and hit the stores in early Q1 2010.

The delay is also affecting Havendale's mobile-prone brothers, the Auburndale CPUs and this should be great news for AMD as it is planning to introduce its IGP-loaded Swift chips in the second half of 2009. Now bring on those Bloomfields.