Intel has been spilling the beans about what it is going to tell people at next month's IDF conference.

It seems that the Tukwila chip, as we predicted, will kill off the Itanium range and will have twice the performance at a cost of 2 billion transistors. It also looks like the Dunnington hexa-core processor will use using existing Core 2 architecture.

Intel is also talking about the Nehalem chip's integrated memory controller which will include SMT, which looks suspiciously like HyperThreading in a different guise. Nehalem also borrowed the L3 cache concept from K10 / Barcelona.

Intel has confirmed that Larrabee, the GPU technology Intel is building, will support OpenGL and DirectX. Stay tuned, there is more.