Report: New Intel Desktop Chips Coming Soon
New things coming soon, according to Taiwan.
Intel typically doesn't let on about new processor models until launch time, but motherboard makers have to know before the market does so that it can prepare the hardware and BIOS to support the new chips.
According to DigiTimes' sources at motherboard companies, Intel will be rolling out new desktop options along with some lower price points.
Supposedly coming this month is the hexacore Core i7-970 at $885. Also this month will be a pair of Core i5 chips, the i5-870S and the i5-760 at $350 and $205, respectively.
Then in August, a Core i3-560 will debut at $138, while the Core i7-950 will fall from $562 down to $294.
Intel will also be rolling out new Pentium and Celeron value-oriented chips throughout the summer and fall. Check out the full list here.

ya but its way more than what hardcore gamers would need
its more for CPU intensive tasks and heavily multi-threaded apps
That one did exist at one time, but was replaced rather quickly by the 950.
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=37148
The 950 looks to be moving down to the 930's current price, so there is no need to revive the 940. Looks like 3.06GHz at the entry level pretty soon.
Why does everybody here think a cpu is just for games? Believe it or not they do serve other purposes. I do a lot of encoding, I would love to put a realistically priced hexacore in my 1366 mb but I'm guessing that won't be happening now
As long as they have no real competition at the high end, they have no real incentive to drop the pricing. Intel's Nehalem based hexacores are unmatched for multithreaded performance, and anyone who actually needs that performance is usually willing to pay $800+ for it. For everyone else, they have other, cheaper quad cores that are still incredible. Don't expect the hexacores to drop in price until either Intel releases something new on the very high end, or until AMD actually brings out something that can compete.
Plus, they want to charge $800 for a hexacore. Screw that.
Agreed. If people want to spend money, spend it on something worth while, like..... $1000 AMD 12-core Opteron?
Some people are like but the socket is so huge....and I am like...and?
and nutbar's who just have to have the best everything, any i7 cpu is more than you'll need.