I’m sure you’ve heard the term Sandy Bridge thrown around – the articles and reviews on Intel’s second-generation Core i7 technology have more than proliferated by now. The consensus is that this ...

Intel's Sandy Bridge chipset is potentially serious but the relatively small number of systems in customers' hands mitigates the severity to some degree. Brooke Crothers Former CNET contributor Brooke ...

When Intel launched its “Sandy Bridge” second-generation Core processors in January year, it launched only “mainstream” parts, with prices ranging from about $64 for Pentium-branded processors, up to ...

Systems based on Intel's 'Sandy Bridge' processors are coming soon. Should consumers sit tight until laptops arrive sometime in the first quarter? Brooke Crothers Former CNET contributor Brooke ...

[Photo: Courtesy of Apple] Good news, everybody–you don’t have to wait for Apple to approve Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors before you can run Mac OS X on the new CPUs. Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs ...

The second generation of Intel's 32nm Core Processor Family, codenamed Sandy Bridge, introduces a new microarchitecture that delivers significant improvements in energy efficiency. New Advanced Vector ...

After months of anticipation, Intel's Sandy Bridge processors launched at CES 2011 and were featured in a number of devices unveiled at the event. Everything seemed to be moving along for the ...

Rumors suggest that Intel’s forthcoming Sandy Bridge integrated CPU/graphics platform will find its way into the lower-end range of the next generation of MacBooks. Bearing in mind Apple’s cozy ...

On May 15, AMD officially unveiled Trinity, the company’s successor to its Llano line of "Fusion" processors that combine CPU and GPU into a single part. The ...

After months and months of speculation, Sandy Bridge is finally here, at least in pre-launch form. The big question on everyone's mind is, does Intel's newest silicon live up to the hype? See for ...

With six cores (and 12 threads) operating between 3.3GHz and 3.9GHz and a massive 15MB of Level 3 cache the i7-3960X should be stupidly fast. And it is, some of the time. The trouble is that most ...