Quote Originally Posted by kl0012 View Post
Actually tick-tock strategy still works, just with a two-month shift in each cycle (C2D (August 2006) => Nehalem (November 2008) => SB (Jan-Feb 2011))
pff... it never really worked on a 12month cycle, especially in the beginning lol... just check the release dates... but it doesnt matter if its exactly 12 months or 14 months sometimes or even 16months... intel does a really good job with their cpu cycles imo... although recently they have been taking it mighty slow updating their architectures and do baby step after baby step... first integrate on the same package, then on the same die, then actually merge the blocks... just look at pineview it still has the fsb interface for block to block communication within the same die... LOL

i wonder if sandybridge still uses qpi for block to block communication...