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The latest family of Intel microprocessors, code-named Sandy Bridge, will be in production by the end of this year, and desktops and laptops with the chips will likely be on world markets in early 2011.The new microprocessor family is built using the second generation of Intel's High-K metal gate 32-nanometer production technology. Sandy Bridge includes processing cores, a memory controller, cache subsystem and Intel's sixth-generation graphics processing core all on one chip.ntel is expected to start producing a new line of microprocessors, code-named Ivy Bridge, near the end of next year using 22nm technology.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Intel's biggest rival in the microprocessor business, will start shipping its new Fusion chips for desktop and laptop PCs around the same time Sandy Bridge chips enter the market. AMD's new chips combine graphics chips and a general-purpose CPU on the same piece of silicon, which AMD says will make them speedier and more power-efficient. The chips will be manufactured using 32nm technology.
