Intel's Sandy Bridge Chips To Hit This Year

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They’re calling it Sandy Bridge, and by all indications, the newest chip from Intel is going to be a really big deal. You haven’t heard about these from us since April, so it comes as a pretty big surprise that they’re already poised to hit market.

What drove this push is the discovery that people given test products of the Sandy Bridge line almost universally raved over their capability. Thus Intel, deciding to give the people what the test market clearly wanted, put a whole lot of cash and effort into cranking up Sandy Bridge.

The biggest difference between the Sandy Bridge material and the current Nehalem product we’re working with these days is a matter of size. Sandy Bridge architecture goes all the way down to 32nm, whilst the Nehalem measures at 45nm.

So when will we see Sandy Bridge material? Too soon to say, though there’s at least some evidence they’ll start shipping by the end of the year.