Intel Unveils 'Sandy Bridge' Architecture

njkobie writes "Intel has officially unveiled Sandy Bridge, its latest platform architecture, at the first day of IDF in San Francisco. The platform is the successor to the Nehalem/Westmere architecture and integrates graphics directly onto the CPU die. It also upgrades the Turbo Mode already seen in Core i5 and i7 processors to achieve even greater speed improvements. Turbo Mode on Sandy Bridge processors can now draw more than the chip's nominal TDP where the system is cool enough to do so safely, enabling even greater boosts in core speeds than those seen in Westmere. No details of specific products have been made available, but Intel has confirmed that processors built on the new architecture will be referred to as 'second generation Core processors,' and are expected to go on sale in early 2011. In 2012 it is due to be shrunk to a 22nm process, under the name Ivy Bridge."

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GBA

[tepples]

Meh, maybe I'm just an embedded person who treasures ARM above all else and thinks that 640k ought to be enough for anyone.

Then go ahead and stick to your Game Boy Advance with its ARM7TDMI CPU and 384 KiB of RAM. If it's good enough for TOD, it might be good enough for you.

Re:dont expect a 980x killer just yet

[HasHie]

just made an acct
trying not to be an anonpussy

-HasHie