Intel's second 32nm high-end CPU with 6 cores and 12 threads based on Westmere 32nm technology is set to launch in a year from today. Intel plans to introduce its high-end CPU codenamed Gulftown in Q2 2010.

The company has said to a special few that the new CPU should fit the 130W TDP envelope and that it will work on existing LGA 1366 infrastructure. You won't need a new chipset, as it will work with X58.

The memory supported is DDR3, and officially Intel will only support the miserable 1066MHz memory and not even 1333MHz memory will be supported, but we are quite sure that faster memory will work.

So now you can bet that the soon-to-launch Core i7 975 will be the fastest CPU this Xmas, and a 3.33GHz Bloomfield 45nm quad-core will be the fastest you can buy.