Hasta La Gadget!

Although most of his Computex keynote was about its new Atom initiatives, Intel EVP David Perlmutter found time to praise Intel’s next major chip architecture, code-named “Sandy Bridge.” Perlmutter promises significant performance increases, according to Permutter. In part, this is because the CPU, media processor, and graphics component will all use the firms latest 32nm process. Indeed, he showed a demo of a Sandy Bridge processor rendering a complex 3D game and holding its own against a system with a discrete graphic card. Here is the video, so you can see for yourself. Just remember, products won’t be on store shelves until Q1 of 2010.