Intel's Sandy Bridge Architecture

           SandyBridge comes with an integrated graphics circuits in the same silicon and with a full new architecture. Integrating the graphics closer to the CPU, SandyBridge permits much faster video processing. That could not be a excellent news for GPU providers like Nvidia and others.

           The main CPU in 2010 like as Core i5, i7, i9 is 45nm; they can speed up the laptop computer. Beginning of this year, Intel releases a main CPU product. Known as SandyBridge which is the first mainstream introduction of Quad-Core processors.

           SandyBridge continues to make use of the existing Intel CPU's model, Actually Core i series and the Pentium/Celeron series a small number of models are now expecting.

CPU and GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) now together in this processor. i3/i5 processor, Clarkdale in the core of the 32nm method. Now Intel's solution is to a 32nm manufacturing method of the CPU core and 45nm GPU core package together. The 32nm SandyBridge is the CPU and the GPU are in a disk. This will be obviously a revolutionary factor.

           This Processor's first chips will feature with dual-core processor, quad-core, second-generation 32nm HKMG method manufacturing, LGA1155 package, support for Turbo Boost Dynamic Acceleration, Hyper Threading, interface, integration sixth-generation graphics core, the introduction of AVX instruction set, thermal design power 65W (dual core), 95W core), with 6 series chipset, native support for SATA 6Gbps, anyway some do not support the PCI bus.

           The key feature of Sandy Bridge Intel AVX will increase performance in floating point, media and processor intensive application. When used by application programmers, while the key features of Intel AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) include wider vectors, increasing from 128 bit to 256 bit wide, leading to up to 2x peak FLOPs output; enhanced information rearrangement, leading to allowing information to be moved more effectively, and operand, non-destructive syntax for a range of benefits. Intel AVX can also gain energy efficiency beyond the increases brought by the micro-architectural innovations, and is backwards compatible to existing Intel processors.

           The Sandy Bridge Core I processors support DirectX10.1 graphics core but not supported GPGPU know-how. On the other hand DirectX 11 fully supported by ATI/AMD/Nvidia. DirectX 11 improves video games quality as well as allows to make use of Graphics Processor for general computing. To remove this limitation Intel will be made IvyBridge using 22nm method know-how and integrated further more logic in to this chip. IvyBridge will have 24 in lieu of SandyBridge's 12 stream processors.