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Japanese computer site PC Watch published leaked documents that unveil Intel’s plans for the desktop processor market until 2010. The roadmap unveils it will take another year before Intel’s mainstream Nehalem processors will be available and that the firm is cooking up a six-core Westmere processor for the first half of 2010.

Techpowerup.com says have the brief the map for,

* Demotion of Core 2 Quad Q9550 to Mainstream. It leads the mainstream segment. This follows a significant price cut after the entry of Q9650.
* Core 2 Quad Q9400 enters the sub-segment of high-Mainstream.
* There are variations in the QuickPath interconnect bandwidth between the Core i7 2.66 GHz, 2.93 GHz parts with that of the extreme segment 3.20 GHz model. The extreme segment Core i7 seems to have a higher bandwidth QPI system interface.
* Lynnfield is on course, slated for Q3 2009.
* Two 3.xx GHz dual-core Havendale parts will take seats along with Lynnfied, definitively with 4 MB caches. One of them gets into high-Mainstream sub category.
* Havendale parts make it even to essential and value classes with the low-end value parts continuing to be based on Core architecture till a little longer.
* A six-core Nehalem part code-named Westmere comes out in 2010.

Desktop roadmap micro architecture from Intel (click here for big capture)

Desktop CPU Comparison chart (click here for big capture)

And here a brief explanation for new chip that will landed on earth…..

Havendale/Auburndale (Mainstream/Essential Dual-core):

* 2 cores, 4 threads

* 4MB shared L3 cache

* 45nm

* TDP below 95W

* Mobile parts have TDP of 35/45W

* Dual-channel DDR3 support

* PCI Express Gen2 x16

* DMI x4/x2

* Socket 1160

* Integrated GPU

Lynnfield/Clarksfield (Performance/Mainstream quad-core):

* 4 cores, 8 threads

* 8MB shared L3 cache

* 45nm

* TDP 95W

* Mobile parts have 45/55W TDP

* Dual-channel DDR3

* PCI Express Gen2 1×16 or 2×8

* DMI x4/x2

* Socket 1160

Bloomfield (Extreme/Performance quad-core):

* 4 cores, 8 threads

* 8MB shared L3

* 45nm

* TDP below 130W

* Tripple-channel DDR3

* 1x QPI link

* Socket 1366

Nehalem-EP (Gainestown) (Quad-core):

* 4 cores, 8 threads

* 8MB shared L3

* 45nm

* 60/80/130W TDP

* Triple-channel DDR3

* 2x QPI link

* Socket 1366

Westmere (Hexa-core):

* 6 cores, 12 threads

* 12MB shared L3

* 32nm

* TDP unknown

* Triple-channel DDR3 (DDR3-1600 / 1.35V)

* 2x QPI link

* Socket 1366

* AES-NI

* LaGrande Technology-SX

Nehalem-EX (Beckton) (Octo-core):

* up to 8 cores, up to 16 threads

* 24MB shared L3

* 45nm

* 90/105/130W TDP

* 4 FBD2 interfaces

* 4 QPI links

* Socket-LS (LGA 1567)

* 44 bits physical address

* 48 bits virtual address

or you can see with big capture here

Update February 6, 2010

For desktop chipset Intel will continues shipping replacement chipset for X58/ICH10R that will be arrive in Q2 2010. The next generation X68/ICH11R with supporting LGA 1366 interface and six core processor. Intel P65/H65/Q65 is said to be introduced in Q1 2011, and compatible LGA1156 processors.

Any way, the 6 series chipsets will support DMI 2.0 bus and SATA 6Gbps, USB 3.0 standard.

Intel next generation six chipset

In super processor grade Intel has just begun to ship its newest Itanium processor, codenamed Tukwila, and prepares it for launch later this quarter. Tukwila is a quad-core CPU build with 65nm technology, featuring 2+ billion transistors, two integrated memory controllers, 30MB of cache, and a TDP of 130W.  According to the company, the new Itanium “more than doubles the performance of its predecessor [Montvale] and adds a range of new scalability, reliability, and virtualization features.” The next-generation Itanium, known as Poulson, is set to be manufactured using 32nm and should arrive in the next couple of years.

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