I'll admit I've been out of the loop for awhile, but someone asked me to build a system for them. For what they wanted to do, they needed CPU power, and little in the way of of GPU. So I was going to go with a quad core i7, but everywhere I look, they don't seem to be available any more. Newegg has no i7 processors. In fact, the i7 isn't even listed as an option on their site any more. I looked at Tiger Direct, but they list only one i7 model, and once their stock is gone I'm guessing that will be the end of it.

So what happened? I can't find anything particular on near future options that Intel is offering to replace it.