CES News: Sandy Bridge chips officially launched
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Following weeks of speculation, Intel has unveiled its Sandy Bridge chips – the company's second generation core processors, at International CES.
Intel's ceo Paul Otellini made the official announcement at CES saying that Sandy Bridge represents "the best ever integration between Microsoft and Intel", adding that the chips will bring in a third of all revenues for the firm in 2011 and $125billion of revenue for the pc industry.
The new Core i3, i5, and i7 processors are all based on Intel's 32nm microarchitecture and are the first to put both the processor, memory controller, and graphics on the same die.
The processor family includes a new 'ring' architecture that allows the built in processor graphics engine to share resources such as cache, or a memory reservoir, with the processor's core to increase a device's computing and graphics performance while maintaining energy efficiency.
The second generation processor also includes an enhanced version of Intel Turbo Boost Technology. This feature automatically shifts or reallocates processor cores and processor graphics resources to accelerate performance, tailoring a workload to give users an immediate performance boost when needed.
