Intel debuted the Sandy Bridge CPUs, which had great per-core performance and became one of the best gaming processors on the market. AMD, on the other hand, gambled on Bulldozer, which focused on ...

The 2nd-generation microarchitecture in Intel's Core family of CPU chips, introduced in 2011 and superseding Nehalem. Major features of Sandy Bridge are an integrated GPU, advanced floating point ...

Partners like Lenovo have since launched Sandy Bridge-based systems under the slightly unwieldy moniker "second-generation Intel Core i3, i5, i7 processors" rather than invoke a name widely ...

Even in best case scenarios for the “8-core” processor, it would still lag ... Meanwhile, Intel’s Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge architectures had much greater advancements in single and ...

On January 31st, Intel announced the discovery of a design issue in one of the support chips to the 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processors, code named “Sandy Bridge.” The issue is ...