In early June, the first release date (taken directly from Intel) for the X38 and G35 stated these chipsets were launching within 90 days. When an official date was asked, late August to early September was mentioned (although, privately, during June, late July was still uphold).

July came and the optimistic "late July" was left aside in favor of the more conservative "late August". But, near the end of July, a delay started to take shape. A September time frame was now endorsed, which wasn't completely out of schedule if not for the "later in the month" part.

Late August. September 24th becomes the first specific official launch date. But then, the silicon was changed due to some technical issues. Not only that, but the board components would also need to be changed. Supply for the 24th would be limited, and finallly Intel decided to move the launch date to October 11th.

It's already D-day and we are now facing BIOS problems for the few boards that have been made available (chipset production is still low and not even ASUS and Gigabyte have a great amount of them). With many wanting to buy and only a few being able to sell, high prices are the consequence. As a side note, regarding the BIOS situation, Anandtech received seven BIOS, for two retail boards, in five days (and some seemed to make the boards worse). Not a nice situation for early adopters.

Taking this background into consideration, you may (or may not) believe that boards from abit, MSI, Foxconn and the rest will show up this month or in early November. The same goes for the G35 chipset. As for the X48, don't expect it until the end of Q1 2008.

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