Intel's Sandy Bridge full review
The new Core i7, i5 and i3 presented these days at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas are part of the medium \ high in the desktop market, will therefore take the place of the CPU socket Lynnfiel 1156, and Clarkdale in the market for about a year, this strategy now known to most people, is called Intel Tick-Tock provides for the submission of a new generation of processors each year, the new processors can be characterized or a new architecture (phase tock) or by 'using a new process (phase tick), the CPU "Sandy Bridge "are inserted during the manufacturing process using a Tock, or tested and a new architecture.
Beyond the strategy pursued by Intel in recent years what are the reasons that led to the presentation of a new Intel architecture, although it is still the market leader without the competitor AMD can somehow be worried? Excluding the trivial answers the question and a deepening of the main reasons for this transition is of a technical nature \ economy, the vast majority of processors sold by Intel Socket 1156 Core series belong to the i3 and i5 processors or economic well below the average price of 150 € where the cost of the production process plays a key role. The current CPU Clarkdale from this point of view are not the best, the processor die does not have a monolithic design, but there are two separate dies for a CPU and a plus for the GPU made with two different production processes, the first 32nm while the second 45nm, it is unclear how such an assembly is more complex and expensive than a single monolithic die in this direction because Intel has moved to the mature 32nm process and architectural innovations introduced was created with a CPU 32nm monolithic die that also contains the GPU, this implies a significant decline in production costs as we will see that reflected in the selling price to the public.
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