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Intel's "Sandy Bridge" Chipsets Unveiled
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(link) Monday, 3-January-2011 18:29:43 (GMT +10) - by Sciby
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And another NDA has been lifted off an Intel product, this one being a particularly big release: the Intel "Sandy Bridge" 32nm microarchitecture and processors based around it.
From Techreport's article: At the heart of Sandy Bridge is an essentially new processor microarchitecture, the most sweeping architectural transition from Intel since the introduction of the star-crossed Pentium 4. Nearly everything has changed, from the branch predictors through the out-of-order execution engine and into the memory subsystem. The goal: to achieve higher performance and power efficiency, even on single-threaded tasks, where the integration of multiple CPU cores hasn't been much help. Additionally, each of those cores holds a revamped floating-point unit that supports a new instruction set called AVX. These instructions allow the processing of vectors up to 256 bits in width, and the hardware supports them quite fully. The result should be much higher sustained rates of throughput for floating-point math, giving new life to media processing applications and other sorts of data-parallel computation.
For a massive list of reviews, architecture diagrams and compatible motherboards being released, head over to our Intel Discussion forum with a suitably massive thanks to Digital Monkey for collating the reviews.
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