Intel is pepping to release its “fastest and highly anticipated” eight-core Nehalem-EX server processor later this month, according to reporters familiar with the matter. The processor will be targeted at four-socket servers, Shannon Poulin, Xeon platform director at Intel, told reporters. Additionally, each physical core will be able to run two threads simultaneously, giving the chip 64 virtual processing cores on servers.

The latest processor has been described as Intel’s fastest yet. Though, Poulin declined to provide the clock speed of the chips, the company reportedly said Nehalem-EX will include 24MB of cache, and 2.3 billion transistors. A number of companies that rely on Intel’s processors have had great things to say about the Nehalem architecture.

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