The Core i5 is coming soon -- really soon, it appears. A sales page for the Core i5 750 went up today over at Fry's Electronics. Most folks didn't expect the i5 to make a retail appearance for about another month.

The Core i5 is a Lynnfield, featuring the new socket LGA1156 -- you can kind of think of it as a mainstream version of the new technology introduced in the higher-end Core i7 parts. 

The Core i5 750 is clocked at 2.66 MHz, has 8MB L2 cache and a dual channel memory controller (we are pretty sure -- even though Fry's claims its a triple channel.) At Fry's, it is selling for a reasonable $205 -- but don't but it yet, as the accompanying P55 motherboards aren't yet available, even if they were shipping the chip. 

You can check out our review of the upcoming P55 platform, and the Core i5, over here.