Quote Originally Posted by god_43 View Post
? which feature are they trying? ....idk, i feel as if maybe intel will be able to cripple amd again like they did before?
The original Sandy bridge was canceled and a new project was started.

Core was designed by Intel Israel. By 2005 Core was nearing completion and the uarch guys moved on to the next big thing : Gesher, later called Sandy Bridge.
Usually a CPU design takes 4 years at Intel : 1 is uarch, 2 is implementation , 1 is validation.While Intel Israel was thinking how Gesher will look like, Intel Oregon was busy implementing Nehalem.

But something happened : Gesher is cancelled 1 year after it started and work start all over again. Same team, same project , different name : Sandy Bridge.
Why did they give up the original ? Aimed too low, too complex, wrong path, too small of an improvement over Nehalem ? Who knows. AMD was busy defining K10 at the time, I don't remember hearing of Bulldozer in 2006.

Either way, Sandy Bridge and more likely Ivy Bridge should be just as revolutionary as Core, if Intel Israel wants to live up to the reputation they've earned.