The hottest CPU thing this winter will be three Nehalem marchitecture base cores in Tylersburg DT platform. This platform involves one of the three socket 1366 Bloomfield CPUs clocked from 2.66GHz to 3.2GHz and X58-based motherboard.

The Nehalem in the middle will run at 2.93GHz clock and this is just enough to beat 3.0GHz clocked Core 2 Quad 9650. Nehalem architecture is simply more efficient, and let’s hope Intel will have better luck with 45nm native quad-core.

This gives you quite a good impression that Nehalem and X58 will be only for the richest, at least in Q4 2008 launch time, but the prices will go down and eventually Nehalem will get cheaper and affordable through 2008.

Now you know the clocks and in case of emergency, and unlikely even when AMD catches up, Intel can do faster than 3.2GHz clock Nehalem simply to de-thone AMD’s futuristic 45nm quad-core part. This will occur in Q1 2009, if necessary.