Just a little thing I found on the BIT-TECH site...
ECS confirms Core i7-990X | bit-tech.net
No big deal, I don't thing a lot of people will jump on this, especially in those SB times, but it's (IMHO) a "preview" of things to come with socket 2011 I guess.
I'll "speculate" that one of the first S2011 CPUs could be a 3.6Ghz Hexacore (non-extreme edition)...that would be the next step