Digitimes reports that Intel's upcoming that three Bloomingdale variants of Intel's upcoming Nehalem architecture will be launched at the end of this year. The new names have yet to be decided on, the processors are currently only known by code names.

• XE @ 3.2GHz
• P1 @ 2.93GHz
• MS3 @ 2.66GHz

The all three devices are:

• for LGA1366 socket
• 130W TDP
• 8MB L3 cache
• quad core
• SMT support

Intel will also be launching the new X58 chipset at the same time, which will use the ICH10 south bridge; and X58 uses the new QPI (QuickPath) HyperTransport-like interconnect instead of an FSB.

The X58 features known at this time are:

• Four PCIe 2.0 8x slots
• Quad CrossFireX support
• no SLI support yet, unless Intel and Nvidia make up