This is an interesting development. Its news to me that bloomfield has no NB, but instead, its built into the cpu. I wonder how this'll affect temps. I skipped 45nm, and I think i'll continue that trend till the 32nm shrink happens w/ 6cores (12 via hyperthreading). Thats going to be awesome.

2010 looks interesting:

Westmere 32nm w/ 12mb L2 cache
Cheap DDR3 (i'm hoping)
Triple channel mobos.

2011:

Sandy Bridge:22nm 4.0ghz up to 32 cores (rumored)

I'm thinking, cheap westmere in 2010, then upgrade to high end sandybridge in 2011 and retire my "slow" westmere to another primary computer. Am I thinking way too far ahead? Most likely!