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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."
For serious? Their leading feature is the ability to run even less efficiency than before? Extra speed at expense of power is great for desktops - too bad people hardly buy those anymore. Some of us actually want to run these things ON A BATTERY - can you imagine? Then again, being in Minnesota, I welcome the added heat.
Yeah, I'm getting a pretty strong sense of deja-vu from this. Intel released their ill-considred 64-bit x86 extensions before AMD, but we all know what happened to the good ship Itanic.
Now AMD acquires ATI and starts making noises about releasing integrated CPU/GPUs, and what do we see? Intel releasing the same class of thing, in a package that runs hotter and draws more power which is exactly the opposite of what you want in a mobile computer (which, I would imagine, is where you're most likely to see these chips being used).
Seriously, Intel, what are you guys doing?
I'm sure it is a typo, but if you really only have 8Gb (1GB) of RAM paired with a quad-core CPU then I feel bad for you :/
William George