The first generation of Nehalem desktop processors codenamed Bloomfield, abbreviated BLM, will have 8MB of cache memory. As it has shared cache memory, this should be just about enough.

This decreases the amount of cache from the Core 2 Quad generation from 12MB to 8MB, but Nehalem should be able to use its cache wiser and 8MB should be just about enough.

Intel also tells its partners that Bloomfield has four-cores, but it can cope with eight threads. The CPU fits in socket LGA1366, and this is the only new socket Intel plans for 2008.

Intel is still very quiet on the FSB and the CPU core clock itself.