It comes with all the new i5 intell prosessors.....
not sure if serious...
Sandy Bridge is the code name of the microarchitecture of Intel's new line of 2nd Generation Core processors they released about a year ago. Ivy Bridge is the next one, and should be released around April.
^ as said above ^ it's just a codename for a design/product release. All Intel CPUs with the name iX-2xxx are SB, and Ivy Bridge will be the name of the next ones (which will all have product names of the form iX-3xxx). It's a cute way of talking about upcoming stuff without the details or final marketing thrown in.
Because they're codenames then Intel pick them years in advance so they can point at a vague future date and say something with a name to attach it to rather than talking about the CPU 3 generations into the future and as soon as the next gen parts come out all their slides (when read back) seem to indicate the wrong thing. After Ivy Bridge (April, possibly Summer release; Intel have been churning them out since the early Autumn so they've got to release them sometime soon) we have Haswell, then Broadwell (once called Rockwell, don't ask), then Skylake, then Skymont (which is currently pencelled in for around 2015 design for a 2016 release, if they keep their schedule). After that we run out of names but Intel have plans for a 2020 and 2022 release, both of which will be on a die shrink too small for silicon so we're talking the less certain future (which may explain the 4 years between Skymont and the next die shrink, which Intel have been trying to do every other year).
Edit: forgot to say about numbering, Intel's marketing team work against this easy naming convention so it isn't quite so simple. The high end Sandy Bridge Extreme CPUs last year were given the 3xxx numbering system but are not Ivy Bridge. The Extreme means they have a massive memory bandwidth on them and generally are very capable but it is market confusion that Intel are using the 3xxx numbering for two different designs.
It comes with all the new i5 intell prosessors.....
@kbricker said:
not sure if serious...
Sandy Bridge is the code name of the microarchitecture of Intel's new line of 2nd Generation Core processors they released about a year ago. Ivy Bridge is the next one, and should be released around April.
thanks ...
yes i was serious. still a little new to this
thanks
^ as said above ^ it's just a codename for a design/product release. All Intel CPUs with the name iX-2xxx are SB, and Ivy Bridge will be the name of the next ones (which will all have product names of the form iX-3xxx). It's a cute way of talking about upcoming stuff without the details or final marketing thrown in.
Because they're codenames then Intel pick them years in advance so they can point at a vague future date and say something with a name to attach it to rather than talking about the CPU 3 generations into the future and as soon as the next gen parts come out all their slides (when read back) seem to indicate the wrong thing. After Ivy Bridge (April, possibly Summer release; Intel have been churning them out since the early Autumn so they've got to release them sometime soon) we have Haswell, then Broadwell (once called Rockwell, don't ask), then Skylake, then Skymont (which is currently pencelled in for around 2015 design for a 2016 release, if they keep their schedule). After that we run out of names but Intel have plans for a 2020 and 2022 release, both of which will be on a die shrink too small for silicon so we're talking the less certain future (which may explain the 4 years between Skymont and the next die shrink, which Intel have been trying to do every other year).
Edit: forgot to say about numbering, Intel's marketing team work against this easy naming convention so it isn't quite so simple. The high end Sandy Bridge Extreme CPUs last year were given the 3xxx numbering system but are not Ivy Bridge. The Extreme means they have a massive memory bandwidth on them and generally are very capable but it is market confusion that Intel are using the 3xxx numbering for two different designs.