Digitimes reports that Intel is planning to drop the price of its "Extreme" edition back to $999 with the introduction of the Bloomfield (Nehalem) processor. Apparently the 3.2GHz processor will be priced at $999 (in trays of 1000 pieces) down fromt he current $1,499 price for the present top chip, the QX9770.

There are apparently going to be three Nehalems introduced at first:

• 3.2GHz $999
• 2.93GHz $562
• 2.66GHz $284

All will use the new LGA 1366 socket, and require a new X58 chipset based motherboard.