Wow, this rumor is so laughable, it's not even funny.
I posted the Digitimes rumor on the hardware forums a long, long time ago...no one picked up on the Q core mobile, now all of assuden, a electronista rumor is posted, lol. Electronista the paragon of accurate rumor reporting? For shame for shame MR!
Here take a look at digitimes coverage, much better, and then take alook at what they reported a month ago on the same subject...this is old news, wake up.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20071015VL200.html
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/19/idf_quad-core_mobiles/
Intel's first four-core processors for notebooks will debut in Q3 2008, it has been claimed. That narrows the release window down from the previous forecast: sometime in the second half of the year.
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Motherboard-maker moles spilled the beans to DigiTimes, confirming what we've heard before: the 45nm chips will contain 12MB of L2 with each core pair sharing 6MB, they'll run on a 1066MHz frontside bus and consume up to 45W of power.
That's the main reason why they won't feature in 'Montevina', the next generation of Intel's Centrino platform and yesterday revealed to be shipping out of the chip maker's warehouses in May 2008. The quad-cores will require different notebook thermal designs than those laid down for the dual-core 45nm chips that will be part of Montevina.
Now compare silly vague rumors of electronista (where do they get these from, they don't actually say Mooly Eden said this via quotes?)...
http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/10/15/intel.4.core.mobile.demo/
[qoute]An official clock speed for the processor is unknown, though its use of the Montevina platform will supply a faster 1,066MHz bus (versus 800MHz) in addition to improved integrated graphics, 800MHz DDR2 and DDR3 support, and the option of WiMAX for wide-area broadband Internet access. Launch details are unknown beyond an
early-to-mid 2008 release window, though the initial quad-core notebook chip is said to be considered a Core 2 Extreme and would be intended primarily for desktop replacements and other large notebooks.[/quote]
so what electronista is implying, is that the mobile Quad Core Extreme will be on the market before the Monteviña platform that supports is has been released, lol in early to mid '08, rather than previous optimistic reports of Intel saying off the record that they are on track to deliver H2008, specifically Q308.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/15/intel_demos_mobile_quad-core/
Without specialized cooling tech, it would appear Apple will not be able to have a quad-core, even in a 17in MBP, until next year at the earliest, probably late '08/early '09 when Intel migrates to 32nm process.