Reign of Intel

TG Daily:

Intel plans to initially release nine desktop processors with the 45 nm Penryn core, with clock speeds eventually scaling up to 4 GHz, according to a report published by Digitimes today. 

Bad news for consumers:

According to our sources, Core 2 Duo processors have been running at 4.0 GHz in Intel's labs for some time, while the company apparently never felt the competitive pressure to actually release such a processor to the public.

AMD has been getting clobbered for over a year now and still that pressure is nowhere to be found on the horizon.