According to Taiwan’s motherboard industry that, Intel announced the latest Nehalem micro-architecture product planning, the fourth quarter of Bloomfield introduced three quad-core processor, the core clock between 2.66 ~ 3.2 GHz, for mainstream to high-end market. Next-generation Nehalem micro-architecture to give up the old FSB, to switch to the new Quick Path Interconnect structure, and therefore incompatible with the old platform, a new Socket LGA1366, will match the new generation X58 chipsets, expected performance will Ibid. Penryn generation micro-architecture upgrade 15 to 30 percent.

According to the latest Intel desktop processors planning, the new micro-architecture Nehalem products will be late in the fourth quarter, will offer three different models, but the market brand name available, the highest initial listing model XE version of Bloomfield, a new LGA 1366 Processor interface, the core clock to 3.2 GHz, native quad-core and Hyper-Threading support similar to the SMT technology, the same time deal with a maximum eight Threads.

Bloomfield XE version built-in 8 MB L3 Cache, FSB design to give up switch to the new Quick Path Interconnect structure, processors and chipsets transmission speed of 6.4 GT / s, built-in Tri-Channel memory controller, the highest support DDR3-1333 Module, FMB version 08, the highest for the TDP 130 W.

It is worth noting that, Intel has changed the past, a new micro-architecture, initially only for high-end market practices, Bloomfield Apart from the XE version, will be released for two-class performance to mainstream models, the core clock were 2.66 GHz And 2.93 GHz, the same with 8 MB L3 Cache and support SMT technology, but Quick Path Interconnect rate dropped to 4.8 GT / s, memory support rate has reduced to a maximum of support DDR3-1066.

Since switching to the new Quick Path Interconnect structure, with Bloomfield and incompatible with the old platform, in addition to switch to the new LGA 1366 processor interface, but also match the new X58 chipset, the new platform by adding Quad x8 PCI - Express graphics interface support, support for graphics cards Quad CrossFireX more collaborative computing.

According to Taiwan’s motherboard industry said, Bloomfield after the listing of processors, Core 2 Extreme processors will be replaced immediately, the performance level Core 2 Quad processor will be in 2009 withdrew the first quarter of the old LGA775 processor interface Yorkfield 40 Core processors, still remain in the mainstream market, until the end of the fourth quarter of 2009.