Intel’s first next processors based on its next-generation ‘Nehalem’ architecture are due to appear a year from now, in Q4 2008. But the really interesting models will arrive during the first half of 2009: desktop and mobile CPUs with integrated graphics cores.

The chip giant’s roadmap currently has the first Nehalems, codenamed ‘Bloomfield’, coming on stream late next year and targeting gaming PCs, just as this month introduction of the first Core 2 Extreme ‘Penryn’ processors did. Like Penryn, Nehalem is designed to fabbed using a 45nm process.

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