Intel’s first Nehalem mobo is X58
@ 2008/05/10Today we find out that the first Bloomfield supporting mobo will be Intel X58(with ICH10/R) coming out Q4 this year. Because Bloomfield have already got memory controller integrated, so north bridge will be simplified. The biggest point of the board will be the odd lay out, dual channel, Triple channel DD3 supporting and Dual PCIe 2.0 X16 or Quad PCIe 2.0 X8. (src: FireTech !)
As far as X48, was delayed for surplus stock of X38 to push still. In my humble opinion should never of had X48, but I've said that before in other threads.
P31, P35, X38, X48.... G31, G33, G35, G43, G45, and the list continues. Perhaps ya see why I was ranting about it a few months back, now?
Edit: Might even get worse with Nehalem... LGA1366 and LGA1160, two sockets... more excuse for extra chipsets. Or maybe not.