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Another Intel processor platform that sounds like a campground? Of course it is! This one is pretty far out — like 2012 far out — but if Digitimes is to be believed Intel’s actually gearing up to reveal its Chief River laptop platform at CES in January. Said to be based on the 22nm Ivy Bridge processors and have native support for USB 3.0 (finally!), the platform would follow Huron River / Sandy Bridge, which is set to start shipping in laptops in early 2011. (Side note: Digitimes also mentions that we should start seeing Sandy Bridge laptops at this year’s CES, which lines up with what we’ve heard from our own sources.) The word from motherboard manufacturers is that Chief River wouldn’t actually go into mass production until September 2011 and start shipping in systems until January 2012, which makes quite a bit of sense given Intel’s annual timing on these things. Either way, we should be finding out more in a couple months in Vegas — heck, you never know, Intel may even tell us a bit about its 2013 laptop platform. Shall we give them a hand with potential names?

Intel Chief River laptop platform to support USB 3.0, arrive in 2012? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Digg We’re live from the 2010 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, where we’ve got an interesting tidbit of news — those long-awaited and often leaked Sandy Bridge processors will “begin shipping in very high volume” early next year in both laptop and desktop PCs. Now called the “2nd Generation Intel Core processors,” the new chips will feature Intel’s new 32nm architecture for everything, including the integrated graphics processor and memory controller, which will hopefully reduce their power consumption even as the new hardware’s not terribly friendly to overclockers. PR after the break.

Update: Intel’s on stage explaining a bit more about how Sandy Bridge works — apparently the Turbo modes introduced in earlier Core chips (which dynamically clock individual processor cores based on how much thermal headroom they have) now works dynamically with the silicon’s integrated graphics as well. Intel says it can actually exceed the TDP thermal envelope of a chip now to further overclock multiple cores at once, or switch off between overclocking graphics or CPU cores for differing workloads. See a few example images in the gallery below.

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Intel: Sandy Bridge CPUs will ship in early 2011 (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve been hearing about Intel’s Sandy Bridge moniker for over two years now, and though we’re still some months away from their release in early 2011, AnandTech has managed to get one to play with — a Core i5 2400 model running at 3.1GHz, to be exact. Through the course of a typically exhaustive two-part, 15-page report, Anand details exactly how that chip performs and, more recently, what’s coming on the mobile front. For the desktop, the quad-core processor with integrated graphics performs quite well, besting similarly-clocked current processors by around 10 percent while offering similar power consumption. What the chip, and indeed the whole series, doesn’t offer is overclocking — at least not proper overclocking, with Intel locking down both the multiplier and the FSB. On the mobile side things will initially be a bit slower, with clock speeds maxing out at around 2.7GHz, compared to 3.4GHz on the desktop side. But, all mobile chips will have 12 graphics “EUs,” Intel’s arbitrary concept of graphics cores, enough for Anand to conclude that discrete graphics will not be needed for most laptops going forward. That, dear readers, is what we like to call progress.

Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs detailed and tested exhaustively, actually made from sand originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Right now, Intel has every right to lay contentedly atop the laurels of its biggest quarterly profit ever, but that’s not what the company is doing at all. Instead of protracting the life of its current-gen processors unduly, Intel is planning to accelerate the roadmap for its next generation of multicore parts, codenamed Sandy Bridge. The difference between the Nehalem-based stuff we have today and the upcoming chip is that the Sandy Bridge architecture takes everything down to 32nm — including the graphics processor and memory controller which are built at 45nm at present — while keeping it all within the same enclosure. Enthusiastic feedback from customers who were given tasters of the Sandy stuff has been to blame for this haste on Intel’s part, and we’re told that with additional investment in 32nm infrastructure, the chip giant plans to make deliveries late this year. That in turn could potentially result in some eager vendor pushing a Sandy Bridge laptop or desktop out before 2010 is through — which would be all kinds of nice.

Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs to arrive ahead of schedule, could be with us this year originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re obviously well aware of what’s coming up from Intel, but today at Computex Chipzilla demoed its upcoming Sandy Bridge platform for the first time. The demo was quite brief, but showed off the power of the future Intel integrated graphics with a side by side comparison with a discrete graphics system. It’s all in the video after the break, but don’t get your hopes up about seeing these new processors anytime soon — Intel’s Dadi Perlmutter confirmed that they won’t hit the market until 2011.

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Intel briefly demos next-gen Sandy Bridge laptop platform at Computex originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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