BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Nehalem is 8 cored ?
Nehalem will be a native 8 core CPU and this is exactly what Pat Gelsinger said to Huan from Chilehardware.

There are the following possibilities:
1. MCM design used like today, what is the most likely outcome, when 2 CSI interconnections will be used for the links between the two 4 core dies, and you can see one here.
2. Nehalem will be late in 2009 and will be made in 32nm, that enables it to be native 8 core product. Let me remind you that AMD in Q1 2009 will have MCM 8 core product named Montreal (after F1 racing town), so this option has some sense.
3. Or ... simply both.

BADHARDWARE verdict: No, Nehalem shouldn't be natively 8 cored. Westmere in 32nm should be Intel's first native 8 cored product. And Nehalem might have 8 core interface support switched off. However, if AMD would have 730M transistors like Nehalem, instead of its current 473M transistors in Barcelona, it might have 8 native cores. In 2009, Intel will sell Nehalem processors with eight cores on a single slice of silicon.
However, AMD's dark side answer we will not wait more than September 25th this year. What the hell it is?