Intel Demonstrates Sandy Bridge Processor

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Monday revealed several significant design features for the company's 2011 next-generation processor family at the Intel Developer Forum. The new and enhanced features will further extend Intel's chip performance and battery life leadership, and add a number of visually related features built right into the chips.

"The way people and businesses are using computers is evolving at an explosive rate, fueling demand for an even more powerful and visually appealing experience. Our upcoming second generation Intel Core processor family represents the biggest advance in computing performance and capabilities over any previous generation. In addition to offering these features inside Intel-based laptops, we plan to scale these advances across our server data center and embedded computing product portfolio," said Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of the Intel architecture group.

The processor family will include a new "ring" architecture that allows the built-in processor graphics engine to share resources such as cache with the processor's core to increase a device's computing and graphics performance while maintaining energy efficiency.

Sandy Bridge (SNB) 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.

Intel's new processor graphics delivers enhanced visual features focused on the areas where most users are computing today: HD video, stereo-3D, mainstream gaming, multi-tasking and online socializing and multimedia. The graphics core fully supports DirectX 11 and other advanced graphics functionality.

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