Intel late with new CPU?

[Geek-9pm]

Potential Mac Pro customers have been long awaiting updated models from Apple, with the last update to the line having come in July 2010.

Anticipation regarding an updated Mac Pro was heightened back in June as several claims of an imminent launch surfaced. Part numbers claimed to be for new Mac Pro models surfaced a few weeks later, but they instead ultimately turned out to be for new Mac mini models and the Apple Thunderbolt Display.    ...

Here is the source:
Intel Chip Delays Suggest No New Mac Pro Until at Least Early 2012
Are Apple owners more patient than PC owners?

[Transfusion]

No this is Intel delaying CPUs, so other workstation manufacturers are probably also affected by this delay...
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
It seems like an AMD Phenom II X4 980 outruns this Xeon E5620-lets see what Apple comes out with next year.

[Geek-9pm]

... like an AMD Phenom II X4 980 outruns this Xeon E5620-lets see what Apple comes out with next year.

What was that? Apple with AMD? Boy would that be a rumor.
But I don't honk I will ever again have even spare cash to buy an Apple.

Riddle: How to you put a 8 cores into a slim Apple notebook?
Answer: Two in each corner.

[Transfusion]

What was that? Apple with AMD? Boy would that be a rumor.

http://www.macworld.com/article/46961/2005/09/intelvsamd.html
An in depth look into why Apple chose Intel over AMD.
All of Apple's computers, excluding the Mac Pro and the newer iMacs, use mobile versions of desktop processors. AMD did not (and still does not) have many mobile processors that will match Intel's mid-high range, and because Apple is so design-oriented, always striving to cram so much into so little, Intel was the better choice-you don't want your $2000 PC overheating, do you? Or you could put 2 cores in each corner...
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/index-imac.html
It was only until late-2009 that they started to produce iMacs with desktop versions of the C2D.
Apple still uses mobile and all-in-one PC versions of graphics processors for all of its PCs except the Mac Pro.

[BC_Programmer]

As I know the sandy bridge will come from AMD

sandy bridge is Intel. AMD's response is AMD Fusion.