Intel's pulling out the big guns for their Conroe launch. We'll see a 2.93GHz "Extreme Edition" at launch time, & a 3.2GHz chip in time for the holiday season. AMD had better have something up its sleeve between now & then to stay competitive...

"The 2.93GHz Conroe processor will ship as the Core 2 Duo X6800 processor. Previous Intel roadmaps have also confirmed that the launch date for Conroe, the desktop Core 2 Duo processor, is slated for July 23, 2006."