Continued from Intel Pursues the Chinese Market; Takes Aim at Embedded Market
The new Sandy Bridge (development code name) microarchitecture will probably begin showing up in microprocessors for PCs and servers at the end of 2010. At IDF Beijing, Intel announced that volume production would start in the 4th quarter of 2010, using 32nm manufacturing technology. The first 22nm chips using the same architecture are expected a year later.
Intel stressed that one of the key features of Sandy Bridge is the extended Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operation instruction set, called "AVX." The chip integrates a floating-point operation unit, 3D graphics draw circuits and video decoder circuits. AVX expands the vector data width of the current SIMD "SSE" instruction to 256 bits, or double the current bitwidth, making it impossible to evaluate microprocessor performance by integer operation speed alone.
Sidebox B: Software Cache Control for 48-Core Processor
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