Intel today confirmed the early June release of its highly anticipated 4th generation Intel Core processor family, codenamed Haswell. According to an official blog post by Intel posted at 8:00 AM Pacific Time this morning, the new Haswell chips are coming in "3,337,200,000,000,000 nanoseconds", which puts the Haswell launch on June 3 at 11:00 PM PDT - or June 4 at 1:00 AM EDT for the east coast.

"The new family of processors will surpass old technology expectations and usher in a host of striking new designs with incredible performance and extraordinarily long battery life," reads the blog post.