The first details of Sandy Bridge (Tock, 2010, 32nm) are appeared. This CPU shall support AVX, the official successor of SSE. Besides this chip has got eight cores - monotholic-design. Every core has got 512 KiB L2-Cache, while a 16 MiB L3-Cache is for every core (shared-memory).
The successors of Sandy Bridge are IVY Bridge (Tick, 2011, 22nm) and Haswell (Tock, 2012, 22nm). |