They are now for sale. Wish they'd changed the type from i5 and i7 'cos it is not obvious when ordering a mobo and they are a different socket.

http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Components/cat/Processors-Intel/subcat/-Sandybridge-Socket-1155

Still can't see a reason for buying one. Will wait about a year and check out reviews.

BIG NEWS

Intel has issued a chipset recall that will affect every PC and laptop incorporating its new Sandy Bridge processors.

Read more: Intel recall affects all Sandy Bridge PCs | News | PC Pro
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/364867/intel-recall-affects-all-sandy-bridge-pcs#ixzz1DH9I4JTR

In a word:
Doh!

  Big One, never thought I'd see a recall on Cpu's.
Carl2

It was the Intel southbridge chip for motherboards. New mobos now circulating with b3 stepping. Should be plenty in about 1 month.

There has been an improvement made to the graphics on these processors, it was HD 2000 now there is HD 3000.

And it is much quicker, I don't think they are quite there yet, or are they?, but if Intel carry on like this I can see the day coming that we no longer need to buy graphics for our desktop PC's.