Sandy Bridge news from IDF

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Today marks the first day of our IDF 2010 coverage and we just left Dadi Perlmutter's keynote. Keeping up with tradition, Dadi's keynote focused on two of Intel's upcoming microprocessors.

Westmere-EX



Sandy Bridge





Officially Sandy Bridge will be called the 2nd generation Intel Core processor, and here are the new logos:



Intel confirmed that Sandy Bridge has dedicated video transcode hardware that it demoed during the keynote. The demo used Cyberlink's Media Espresso to convert a ~1 minute long 30Mbps 1080p HD video clip to an iPhone compatible format. On Sandy Bridge the conversion finished in a matter of a few seconds (< 10 seconds by my watch).



http://www.anandtech.com/show/3916/i...anscode-engine

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The compute essentials piece involves three sub-parts, energy efficient performance, security and internet connectivity. Energy efficient performance is driven by transistor technology, and this time it was focused on 22nm. Intel said they had 22nm CPUs going through the fabs now, with shipments in the second half of 2011. Not bad...

...The last bit was the Romley platform, basically Sandy Bridge EP. This part is known by basically everyone. What is new is that they said that the two socket machine has 16 cores and 32 threads. With a little math, we can confirm what everyone strongly suspected, Sandy Bridge EP has 8 core variants.S|A

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/09/...ger-chip-maker

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To continue growth, Intel recognizes that there's a spectrum of different computing experiences, of which the desktop is just a small part. That spans the gamut from desktops to embedded platforms, and Intel is hoping to get x86 Intel Architecture into all of those. No single device is going to win or satisfy the need of pervasive computing, as people move between platforms nearly seamlessly every day.

Part of delivering those experiences beyond just the desktop - and delivering them well - means that Intel must be ready to deliver a complete system platform. That means much more than a motherboard, support, and leaving software integration to the customer. Beyond netbooks and into smartphone and more embedded applications, delivering connectivity and a consistently enjoyable experience on smaller form factors and even smaller power envelopes becomes increasingly hard. Intel is becoming a systems provider to lower time to market and hope to deliver the kind of polished devices users expect.





http://www.anandtech.com/show/3915/i...ions-chipmaker

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"The way people and businesses are using computers is evolving at an explosive rate, fueling demand for an even more powerful and visually appealing experience. Our upcoming second generation Intel Core processor family represents the biggest advance in computing performance and capabilities over any previous generation. In addition to offering these features inside Intel-based laptops, we plan to scale these advances across our server data center and embedded computing product portfolio," said Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of the Intel architecture group...

...Intel's new processor graphics delivers enhanced visual features focused on the areas where most users are computing today: HD video, stereo-3D, mainstream gaming, multi-tasking and online socializing and multimedia. The graphics core fully supports DirectX 11 and other advanced graphics functionality.

The 2011 chips also come with Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). AVX delivers improved performance, rich functionality and the ability to better manage, rearrange and sort data. A new 256-bit instruction set accelerates floating point intensive applications such as digital photo editing and content creation.

Intel also demonstrated a dual processor, next-generation Intel Xeon processor server running Vidyo video conferencing software that utilizes the 32 threads available on the system, and takes advantage of the AES New Instructions set (AESNI). Next-generation Xeon processors for 2 socket servers and workstations run 8 cores and 16 threads per processor and are on schedule for production in the second half of 2011.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...Processor.html

[sin0822]

very nice, funny they named it second generation hahahaha

[WrigleyVillain]

Thanks

[Hornet331]

from techreport "live blog"

Our recent acquisition of McAfee is about going from a known-bad model to a known-good model. Most security software today relies on a database of threats. Wouldn't it be great if we could give you a secure machine that only allowed in trusted software? We believe only a combination of hardware and software-based security can deliver this.

Ble... more locked down platforms like apple..

[RaV[666]]

Wouldn't it be great if we could give you a secure machine that only allowed in trusted software?

Am i living in alternate reality ? Guy talks like thats good thing you can run only pre approved software ?

[Hornet331]

welcome to the future...

[Sam_oslo]

Intel said they had 22nm CPUs going through the fabs now, with shipments in the second half of 2011

This means high-end SB will be 22nm

I like the 10C/20T. With this trend, we are going to end up with some kind of a GPU on hand, soon or later.

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This means high-end SB will be 22nm

I like the 10C/20T. With this trend, we are going to end up with some kind of a GPU on hand, soon or later.

they could, but the first ivy-bridge based CPUs will probably replace SB-DT (LGA1155)...

tick-tock FTW

[geo]

hardware uac = fail. altho i see it being widely in enterprise. apple messed it up for us and future with succes of closed consumer milking model.. i guess at this rate, pcs might up like smartphones where consumer doesnt have admin rights on the device they bought. sadly, i look forward jailbreaking a pc lol. even businesses are going socialist these days, limiting choice /rant

[Hornet331]

hmm hope we see new information soon, since all the SB related stuff is over in 2h max.

Hope some covers the sessions ARCS001-3. Thats the most interesting part on IDF for me.

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Intel's new processor graphics delivers enhanced visual features focused on the areas where most users are computing today: HD video, stereo-3D, mainstream gaming, multi-tasking and online socializing and multimedia. The graphics core fully supports DirectX 11 and other advanced graphics functionality.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...Processor.html

[Kingcarcas]

Do you think Westmere could come to the desktop?

[Hornet331]

It already is here..

980X and 970

[ChinStrap]

Do you think Westmere could come to the desktop?

it is already.

[Movieman]

What I didn't see and am curious on is if they are integrating graphics on their 2P and 4P platforms.
I can see it for laptops and entry level desktops but it will take a lot to prove to me that any integrated graphics can match any of todays even middle of the line vid cards.
Besides, I'd rather they leave the graphics part off the cpu.
Just something else to generate heat.

[flippin_waffles]

Intel's new processor graphics delivers enhanced visual features focused on the areas where most users are computing today: HD video, stereo-3D, mainstream gaming, multi-tasking and online socializing and multimedia. The graphics core fully supports DirectX 11 and other advanced graphics functionality.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...Processor.html

Intel "Sandy Bridge" hybrid graphics won't support DirectX 11

Today during the IDF keynote speech Intel demoed its “Sandy Bridge” hybrid graphics-microprocessor chip, and confirmed that the standalone chip won’t support DirectX 11 graphics.

[hicookie]

should be another thread, but you can see gigabyte's p67 at IDF
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,77...ainboard/News/

[zanzabar]

hardware uac = fail. altho i see it being widely in enterprise. apple messed it up for us and future with succes of closed consumer milking model.. i guess at this rate, pcs might up like smartphones where consumer doesnt have admin rights on the device they bought. sadly, i look forward jailbreaking a pc lol. even businesses are going socialist these days, limiting choice /rant

since when are smart phones like that, other than the IOS and BBos that are more feature phones with better email u have winmo, droid and syban and those all let the user do whatever they want.

but as u said i could see a point in it for enterprise so u get your signed code only, but from a hardware lvl its not vary viable to anything more than MMX were u encrypt your commands so it cannot be injected on the cpu but thats not a viable approach to hacking so this will most likely end up with c1e v2 and just allow for better segmentation of code access and i cannot see it being mandatory. just go and look back at what c1e was supposed to be capable of and what its used for.

should be another thread, but you can see gigabyte's p67 at IDF
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,77...ainboard/News/

why is there such a giant heatsink were the NB would be if its got an integrated NB and then there is a spot were the SB should be with another rather large HS for for what the platform would normally be

[hicookie]

since when are smart phones like that, other than the IOS and BBos that are more feature phones with better email u have winmo, droid and syban and those all let the user do whatever they want.

but as u said i could see a point in it for enterprise so u get your signed code only, but from a hardware lvl its not vary viable to anything more than MMX were u encrypt your commands so it cannot be injected on the cpu but thats not a viable approach to hacking so this will most likely end up with c1e v2 and just allow for better segmentation of code access and i cannot see it being mandatory. just go and look back at what c1e was supposed to be capable of and what its used for.



why is there such a giant heatsink were the NB would be if its got an integrated NB and then there is a spot were the SB should be with another rather large HS for for what the platform would normally be

NF200 still very hot.

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should be another thread, but you can see gigabyte's p67 at IDF
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,77...ainboard/News/

that UD7 looks sexy

[Cooper]

Doesn't that ought to say 3rd generation ? Or Intel forgot what Russian engineers from Israel done to keep them afloat after P4 disaster ?
Not sure how it's possible to visual the millions of transistors on a square centimeter field either...marketing BS as usual.

[zanzabar]

NF200 still very hot.

why would they put that crap on a board that they were not forced to it dose not improve performance on sli or xfire

[Hornet331]

why is there such a giant heatsink were the NB would be if its got an integrated NB and then there is a spot were the SB should be with another rather large HS for for what the platform would normally be

for the "bling"

[JohnMike]

should be another thread, but you can see gigabyte's p67 at IDF
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,77...ainboard/News/

Black motherboard PCB... I like it!

[tajoh111]

22nm chips are already built, didn't GF try to brag they had the first 28nm chips a week ago.

But man, 22nm ivy bridge is going to be competing against 32nm bulldozer. Bulldozer better be a stronger architecture than sandy bridge because a full node is near impossible to compete against.