The world’s largest processor manufacturers is currently hosting the Intel Developer Conference and as the custom goes it has demonstrated some of its future products. Among others it had a pretty big focus on the coming 32nm architecture where the mobile processor Arrandale was allowed to show its worth. With dual CPU cores, Arrandale is based on Intel’s 32nm Westmere architecture and it is slated for launch in a few months.
Intel also decided to show how it managed to squeeze 1 billion transistors into a desktop CPU using its new 32nm technology. Perhaps not that impressive compared to AMD RV870 and its 2.15 billion transistors, but since Intel uses around 800 million transistors with Lynnfield it’s still worth mentioning.
The perhaps most interesting processor shown at IDC was Sandy Bridge. As the next big processor architecture from Intel this 32nm CPU is slated for the second half of 2011. It will sport four cores and an integrated GPU. Despite the late launch date Intel was able to show the processor today already.
Intel continued to talk about the development of its processor family Atom while it also showed the first 22nm wafer with SRAM test chips.
Intel Sandy Bridge running Windows 7
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