Expreview.com has managed to get its hands on what appears to be leaked Intel slides, detailing the semiconductor manufacturer's forthcoming enthusiast chipset,  X58.

The chipset, pencilled onto Intel's roadmap for Q4 '08, looks set to be the first to support quad-core Bloomfield processors, based on its 45nm Nehalem architecture.

Bloomfield, a 45nm quad-core processor for the LGA 1366 socket, will provide eight processing threads with simultaneous multi-threading and 8MiB of shared L3 cache.

If indeed these slides are to be believed, motherboards based on Intel's X58 chipset will support Bloomfield CPUs and feature a tri-channel integrated DDR3 memory controller, complete with the Intel QuickPatch interconnect that'll do away with the age-old FSB. There will be four PCI-E 2.0 slots, supporting 2x16 or 4x8 configurations, and seven additional SSE4 instructions.