Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs way ahead of schedule, could be with us this year

[azza21]

Came across this on Engadget today, looks as if Intel could well be releasing Sandy this year afterall. Great news if so, looks like i could have a new built pc in time for christmas

Engadget link

[[XC] gomeler]

Interesting. Maybe we'll have a short period of LGA1155 fun if the CPUs clock to the moon

[Chumbucket843]

the reason why intel had great earnings is because they are maximizing 32nm's profitability by selling for premium prices. they dont really need to launch sandy bridge because they are on their own schedule, not the market's.

[OhNoes!]

Not surprising, like Chum said, it's all about market dynamics now, the product has been ready for some time.

[terrace215]

This is total garbage, Engadget are completely misinterpreting the earnings CC comments.

I mean, look at the title, even, "to tape out ahead of schedule".

SB was always going to ship for revenue in Q4, with product launches in Q1.

Intel said SB has been getting a great reception (customers like the samples), so they are adding 32nm capacity, in order to be able to ramp them faster.

Intel DID NOT SAY it is "way ahead of schedule", or make any other comment implying products would launch sooner. They simply confirmed what they've been saying all along: SB shipments for revenue late this year.

Remember, Intel has also said OEMs much prefer January launches to Q4 launches.

CC comments:


I want to mention our upcoming product family codenamed Sandy Bridge. Last quarter I mentioned that we were broadly sampling this product to our customers. I’m more excited about Sandy Bridge than I have been on any product that the company has launched in a number of years.

Due to the very strong reception of Sandy Bridge, we have accelerated our 32nm factory ramp, and have raised our CapEx guidance to enable us to meet the anticipated demand. We look forward to seeing many of you at our September IDF Conference in San Francisco, where we will share more details about this new architecture.

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David Wong – Wells Fargo

Thank you very much. Paul, you mentioned that you are very excited about Sandy Bridge and this was one of the reasons for accelerating 32 nm, does this mean that you are planning to bring out Sandy Bridge earlier than scheduled, and when might we expect to see first launches of systems that have Sandy Bridge in them?

Paul Otellini

Well, we will talk more about the product in a lot of detail at IDF in a couple of months. In terms of product granularity, I really don’t want to get more granular than we have been which is that we will ship Sandy Bridge for revenue this year, late this year.

David Wong – Wells Fargo

Great, thanks. And further on the CapEx question, and when you have higher CapEx this year, does that represent a pull in from 2011, reducing what might otherwise have been spent in 2011, or is it just extra spending?

Stacy Smith

Yes, that is the right way to think about it, although we haven’t put a forecast out for 2011 yet. So, we don’t know how to do the plus or minus to that, but to just piggyback on what Paul said, based on what we are hearing on Sandy Bridge, we are now anticipating a faster ramp of the product, so some of the capital that I thought we could spend in the first half of next year, we’re going to put in place now so that we can ramp the product out of the shoot faster than we anticipated. So, it should be plus this year and a bit of minus to next year.

[-Sweeper_]

nice, but I dont care about quads, just give me my octo-core as soon as possible

[terrace215]

nice, but I dont care about quads, just give me my octo-core as soon as possible

The high-end desktop & server stuff is mid-2011. Hopefully we get some good stuff on those @ IDF, September 13-15. And maybe one of those "Hello, my name is IvyBridge" demos. Probably too early for "Hello, my name is Haswell."

[ajaidev]

Sandy bridge is on track it will not be super early or late.

[terrace215]

Sandy bridge is on track it will not be super early or late.

Hey, did you get one of the enthusiast octo-core SB samples yet?

[naokaji]

the reason why intel had great earnings is because they are maximizing 32nm's profitability by selling for premium prices.

Too true, too true, especially the i3 and i5 dual cores are horribly overpriced.

[Hornet331]

Yes the i3s are so horrible overpriced that they are and where cheaper then E7xxx dualcores at release...

[Iconyu]

the reason why intel had great earnings is because they are maximizing 32nm's profitability by selling for premium prices. they dont really need to launch sandy bridge because they are on their own schedule, not the market's.

I thought it was because they agreed to stop trying to get into price wars with AMD as it was really damaging having a performance lead AND constantly lowering prices just to stop AMD making any profit.

[naokaji]

Yes the i3s are so horrible overpriced that they are and where cheaper then E7xxx dualcores at release...

Phenom 2 x4 965BE 145£
I5 750 150£
I5 650 150£

Athlon 2 x4 640 105£
I3 530 100£

Phenom 2 x6 1055T 160£
I5 661 170£

I don't see how anyone could not consider the 32nm dual cores overpriced.

[MrMojoZ]

I don't see how anyone could not consider the 32nm dual cores overpriced.

For some people AMD doesn't ever enter the equation, so they only compare prices to other Intel models.

[josh1980]

For some people AMD doesn't ever enter the equation, so they only compare prices to other Intel models.

I am one of those people. I've owned multiple AMD computers in the last 15 years. I was disappointed with every single one. I do not even consider AMDs unless I'm looking at power usage solely and don't care about performance.

I don't recommend AMDs to others, but I have no qualms about anyone else buying them. I just won't...

[Speederlander]

My next upgrade from 45nm Harpertown is the 22nm stuff.

[Nintendork]

I am one of those people. I've owned multiple AMD computers in the last 15 years. I was disappointed with every single one. I do not even consider AMDs unless I'm looking at power usage solely and don't care about performance.

I don't recommend AMDs to others, but I have no qualms about anyone else buying them. I just won't...

¿Have you tried any K7/XP/A64/X2 in the pentium III/4/D era? By no means you can be dissapointed unless you always bought ultra-cheap(pcchips) motherboards and expect them to perform like high end ones.

Similar to saying being dissapointed with a radeon 9800 vs geforce FX5000 or HD2900 vs GTX8800.

Maybe prior to 1999 with a minority of motherboards(mostly low quality) for the K6-2. That could be a reason to be dissapointed.

[Manicdan]

Abit NF7-S 2.0 nuff said (i think thats the right one, i have to get mine out of the shed)

[josh1980]

¿Have you tried any K7/XP/A64/X2 in the pentium III/4/D era? By no means you can be dissapointed unless you always bought ultra-cheap(pcchips) motherboards and expect them to perform like high end ones.

Similar to saying being dissapointed with a radeon 9800 vs geforce FX5000 or HD2900 vs GTX8800.

Maybe prior to 1999 with a minority of motherboards(mostly low quality) for the K6-2. That could be a reason to be dissapointed.

My first was a 486dx2-66 that was slower than my 486dx2-50.

Then I gave them a change with a K6-2 450 that should have been faster than my p2-200. With the exact same video card(I took it out of my computer and with me on vacation!), more ram than my desktop at home, and Everquest was unplayable. I was furious because I had just bought the computer and it was a POC.

Next I tried a 1Ghz AMD athlon(????). It was crap compared to my Intel p3 850mhz.

Then, most recently and regretably I tried an athlon x2 laptop. I was told that they had been doing much better after supposedly beating Intel's performance on the p4s. I had seen the benchmarks that AMD was even or superior on benchmarks but my friends always wondered why my p4s would boot up and play games better than their (what should have been superior) computers. Anyway, I wanted to be able to watch videos when traveling and it should have been able to cut the mustard. Instead, when I unplugged it I couldn't watch the 720p videos I had. I was so pissed off because I had spent $1200 on that laptop and it couldn't server the ONE purpose I had for it. The problem was as soon as you unplugged it, the CPU immediately clocked itself to the lowest frequency and locked itself there.

I called HP and they said that AMD's laptop line does that for battery life. I swore on that day I'd NEVER EVER EVER buy AMD again if I had any kind of performance based expectation. If/when AMD gives me a computer, I'll CONSIDER giving them another chance. Until then, I've soaked $3k+ over the last 10+ years and every time the computer would be less than a week old and was worthless to me. As for that laptop I paid 1200 for, I gave it away for $250 a month later because I couldn't stand to have it in my house it disgusted me so much.

Not to sound offensive but I've had quite a few people I work with ask the same question(you tried this line, that line, etc.). I have never bought an AMD and been happy with it.

I have a dark dark history with AMD, and I won't use them. I will recommend people don't buy AMD. But I will admit if I wasn't a power user and gamer I might have a different opinion of them. They do function, albeit in a limited manner for me, and have never, not even once, been able to perform the one task I intended them to be used for.

Despite the flame wars between Intel and AMD fanboys I am glad AMD is doing well. I'd prefer Intel have competition, I'd prefer the AMD employees stay employed because they won't stay employed from my product purchases.

I am looking at buying one of those "overpriced" dual core processors. And I know that when I buy it, it will do exactly what I need it to do at the minimum. I won't consider AMD because I have no intention of being disappointed yet again by (imo) a substandard product.

PLEASE don't start an Intel/AMD flamewar in this thread. I'm just trying to explain my position .

Cheers!

[~CS~]

My first was a 486dx2-66 that was slower than my 486dx2-50.

Then I gave them a change with a K6-2 450 that should have been faster than my p2-200. With the exact same video card(I took it out of my computer and with me on vacation!), more ram than my desktop at home, and Everquest was unplayable. I was furious because I had just bought the computer and it was a POC.

Next I tried a 1Ghz AMD athlon(????). It was crap compared to my Intel p3 850mhz.

Then, most recently and regretably I tried an athlon x2 laptop. I was told that they had been doing much better after supposedly beating Intel's performance on the p4s. I had seen the benchmarks that AMD was even or superior on benchmarks but my friends always wondered why my p4s would boot up and play games better than their (what should have been superior) computers. Anyway, I wanted to be able to watch videos when traveling and it should have been able to cut the mustard. Instead, when I unplugged it I couldn't watch the 720p videos I had. I was so pissed off because I had spent $1200 on that laptop and it couldn't server the ONE purpose I had for it. The problem was as soon as you unplugged it, the CPU immediately clocked itself to the lowest frequency and locked itself there.

I called HP and they said that AMD's laptop line does that for battery life. I swore on that day I'd NEVER EVER EVER buy AMD again if I had any kind of performance based expectation. If/when AMD gives me a computer, I'll CONSIDER giving them another chance. Until then, I've soaked $3k+ over the last 10+ years and every time the computer would be less than a week old and was worthless to me. As for that laptop I paid 1200 for, I gave it away for $250 a month later because I couldn't stand to have it in my house it disgusted me so much.

Not to sound offensive but I've had quite a few people I work with ask the same question(you tried this line, that line, etc.). I have never bought an AMD and been happy with it.

I have a dark dark history with AMD, and I won't use them. I will recommend people don't buy AMD. But I will admit if I wasn't a power user and gamer I might have a different opinion of them. They do function, albeit in a limited manner for me, and have never, not even once, been able to perform the one task I intended them to be used for.

Despite the flame wars between Intel and AMD fanboys I am glad AMD is doing well. I'd prefer Intel have competition, I'd prefer the AMD employees stay employed because they won't stay employed from my product purchases.

I am looking at buying one of those "overpriced" dual core processors. And I know that when I buy it, it will do exactly what I need it to do at the minimum. I won't consider AMD because I have no intention of being disappointed yet again by (imo) a substandard product.

PLEASE don't start an Intel/AMD flamewar in this thread. I'm just trying to explain my position .



Cheers!

Your sig is very ironic , you blaming AMD for something that you should have taken responsibly for ... Your post is nothing but fud.All you have to do is enable performance mode in wista/win7 power management and you mobile processor will clock up to full speed, regardless of power source.


I am not too exited about SB myself , but time will tell what performance improvement it will bring.And it will be a "Tock" , tocks are usually good






PS:tick-tock.

[Computurd]

i want to know TDP that is pretty much it. what is the TDP of the enthusiast class desktop?

[Solus Corvus]

I am looking at buying one of those "overpriced" dual core processors. And I know that when I buy it, it will do exactly what I need it to do at the minimum. I won't consider AMD because I have no intention of being disappointed yet again by (imo) a substandard product.

In my time using computers (first one was a compaq "portable" 8088), and from life in general, I have learned that any company can let you down. Intel let me down with P4 and AMD let me down with K10. Companies, like the people in them, change. I'm hoping for great things from both companies this next year, but I won't be too shocked if either one doesn't deliver.

[josh1980]

Your sig is very ironic , you blaming AMD for something that you should have taken responsibly for ... Your post is nothing but fud.All you have to do is enable performance mode in wista/win7 power management and you mobile processor will clock up to full speed, regardless of power source.


I am not too exited about SB myself , but time will tell what performance improvement it will bring.And it will be a "Tock" , tocks are usually good






PS:tick-tock.

I did accept responsibility for my purchases. I didn't take them back to the store like alot of people might.

I did. The CPU still clocked down, only then it would jump back and forth between full speed and idle, still causing jumps in the video that made it impossible to watch.

Excuse me ~CS~ but I don't consider it FUD when these are my experiences. If you want to disagree that's fine. But basically calling me a liar is over the top considering I tried to make it clear I didn't want a flamewar starting. I don't get involved in flamewars and I will NOT respond to any more comments from you.

[tajoh111]

Although some Intel processor are overpriced, alot of AMD processors are underpriced considering the cost and size for AMD.

Its unreasonable to expect intel to pull a suicide dive and lower their prices. Not only would it be less profitable for Intel, it would squeeze AMD margins even thinner to the point they would go bankrupt.

For the most part, Intels prices are at the very least, competitive with AMD considering AMDs performance in most situations.

[IvanAndreevich]

Your sig is very ironic , you blaming AMD for something that you should have taken responsibly for ... Your post is nothing but fud.All you have to do is enable performance mode in wista/win7 power management and you mobile processor will clock up to full speed, regardless of power source.


I am not too exited about SB myself , but time will tell what performance improvement it will bring.And it will be a "Tock" , tocks are usually good






PS:tick-tock.

All of Intel's last tick-tocks have been nothing but pleasant since Core 2 Duo emerged.