Back in March, Intel’s Director of Microprocessor Product Marketing, a chap called Zane A. Ball, told Fudzilla that the supply of 45nm mainstream quad-cores “should get continuously better in Q2.”

We are in the first month of Q2 2008 and we still don’t see any sign of a market recovery.

The most desirable Core 2 Quad Q9450 at 2.66GHz with full the 12MB (2x6MB per dual core) L2 cache is almost impossible to find in the German, Austrian, UK or American e-tail market. We checked with some of the key players in these countries and we found zero of these CPUs available.

However, the situation tends to get better if you want an OEM Q9300, and this 2x3MB cache version 2.5GHz quad-core at 45nm is available in all countries that we’ve mentioned above.

You can bet that despite telling it to the world, Intel has some huge issues with its mainstream quad-cores and ramping the production in 45nm a bit faster. Interestingly enough, Intel doesn’t have any issues to ship enough E8x00 Core 2 Duo, dual-core CPUs also manufactured in 45nm.  

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