Though intel has not officially released the news on Intel Six-core Intel Gulftown with version i7 980X, many websites have already started publishing news . This kind of reaction is quiet similar to the one that happened on amd six core processor.
Now coming to the features of Intel gulftown core i7 980x as the name says it will have six core with the ability to handle twelve processing threads and it will be clocked at 3.333GHZ.
Its going to be the first 32nm processor after the quad processor and its picture is shown below
Intel processor desktop roadmap and also its detail on performance is shown in the below snapshot
It is expected that the processor wll be released in the first quarter of 2010 and even almost all the IT enabled industried can expect for the release of such high performing processors so that they in turn have good turnover.