Intel confirms special accelerators in Sandy Bridge

CNet ^ | Monday, November 29, 2010 | Brooke Crothers

[SunkenCiv]

The Sandy Bridge processor--to be announced January 5--will pack media acceleration circuitry, Stephen L. Smith, vice president and director of PC Client operations and enabling at Intel... Sandy Bridge will support DirectX 10.1 and OpenCL 1.1--the latter used on Apple's Mac operating systems... Certain graphics chips from Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia already support DirectX 11... Smith also reiterated that Intel is on track to deliver the 22-nanometer Ivy Bridge silicon--the follow-on to Sandy Bridge--by the end of 2011... also repeated that Intel has invested "six to eight billion dollars to equip up to four factories for 22-nanometer production." ...A slide showed Intel getting to 8 nanometer chips by 2017.

[SunkenCiv]

Sandy Bridge will have new media acceleration capabilities beyond the improved graphics function. (Credit: Intel)

[SunkenCiv]

seemed like a good idea for a topic by itself. :’)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2640059/posts?page=7#7

[SunkenCiv]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From Fudzilla....Nov 29:

Intel's Sandy Bridge shows up in notebooks

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However ....some of the notebooks are paired up with Mobility Radeon HD 6550 or HD 6570 graphics that look like a simple replacement for the HD 5500 series.

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I guess those would be the ones needing a better Graphics performance....

Wonder if anyone has some benchmarks on that Sandy Bridge IGP Performance...?

[Signalman]

I’m going back to my MOS 6510.

[Swordmaker]

Check out this rumor...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2640317/posts?page=1

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks sm!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest!