http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/But still no Core i9?]]>Aug 14th 2010 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Sigh, intel makes such awesome processors, and ssds, why cant they put that same intelligence into making discrete graphics cards? Is it a patent dispute with companies like Nvidia, and Amd, i dont know, can someone explain?]]>Aug 14th 2010 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Why? I don't see any reason for them to go into the discrete graphics card business. ]]>Aug 14th 2010 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Does that mean my new i7-930 will be obsolete in a few quarters?]]>Aug 14th 2010 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
According to this roadmap, no - there is no direct successor to it.

However, it looks like these 'semi-midrange "best" CPUs' might be better than it ]]>Aug 14th 2010 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/I think Intel is more interested in keeping all graphics on the processor, which is why you see a lot of "integrated/onboard graphics" coupled with Intel processing hardware.

Right now, they don't compete very well with NVidia or ATI cards, but I imagine over time we will see vast improvements on this front. Currently, high-end dedicated graphics cards also have dedicated processors for improved floating point operations. These functions aren't necessarily exclusive to graphical applications, so it would make sense that this ability to sit within the scope the main processor and farmed out to the graphics infrastructure when it's needed. ]]>Aug 14th 2010 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 15th 2010 5:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Well we could have i3/i5/i7 in good/better/best and add something more powerful than i7, call it i9 and it will be the bestest lol]]>Aug 15th 2010 6:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/I think what buffles me the most is the fact that they still don't offer full support for USB 3.0 I mean come on!]]>Aug 15th 2010 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/400 GB SLC NAND equipped SSDs. That sounds amazing to my ears and bad for my old HDD.
I only have to get those 2000$ for that thing.]]>Aug 15th 2010 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 15th 2010 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
Lightpeak...maybe this is why they arent into USB 3.0

http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/None/1813.htm]]>Aug 16th 2010 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
in your dreams]]>Aug 14th 2010 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/If I could get a 256GB SSD for under 250 bucks I would be ok.]]>Aug 14th 2010 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
I'd imagine that drive prices won't drop according to that chart, but size values will double.

So, a 160gb SSD should be half as expensive (approximately) as it is currently today. (300 GB for around $400). So it will be close.

*these are my guesses, though, I have been following the computing industry for around the last 15 years... so I tend to know how to guess well.]]>Aug 14th 2010 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
Here's hoping Intel can get SSD costs down within the next year so that we can buy more GBs for a dollar than how it is right now (more dollars for a GB).]]>Aug 14th 2010 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
1tb ssd for 99 bucks is too expensive. i want it to be 60 bucks at the very least...]]>Aug 15th 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
My laptop running a 2.0ghz dual core with a 80gb x-25m runs just as fast as my desktop running a 2.8ghz quad-core. buy all the cheap geebee's you want, it will never make your computer run as fast as mine.]]>Aug 15th 2010 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
No. I am looking at it the right way. It's exactly what I just said. The speed and reliability isn't worth the costs. At all. You'd be stupid to spend hundreds of dollars for such a small amount of storage space. Period.]]>Aug 15th 2010 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 15th 2010 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
If I'm not stupid enough to spend hundreds of dollars on and SSD I'm not qualified to state how that's a stupid investment? Oh please. Do shut up.

I've seen the benchmarks. I've seen the differences in start up times. It's not worth a multi-hundred dollar investment. It's not warped, it's smart. It's really not worth the monetary investment. At all. If you have money to blow, by all means, but if you're on a budget it's smart to invest your money elsewhere.]]>Aug 15th 2010 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/to wait for that from apple ( you fanboy) it will be old news by the time you get it
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and not up to par with then current standards ]]>Aug 14th 2010 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
You'll likely have to wait for Q'3 2011 for Apple to release a MBP with a Sandy Bridge processor. Can you wait over a year to get one?]]>Aug 14th 2010 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/I was about to say just because he would like to get a Mac doesn't make him a fanboy.

Then I read his name.
Now I feel stupid.]]>Aug 15th 2010 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Will be building my next computer February-May next year and will surely be looking at stucking some SDDs inside.]]>Aug 14th 2010 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/




that's what she said]]>Aug 14th 2010 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
That definitely caught my eye too. ]]>Aug 14th 2010 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
People said the same thing about SATA drives, and a year later were happily using using it because of the storage density.]]>Aug 15th 2010 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
and

Where are the i7 920-980x replacements??? :(]]>Aug 14th 2010 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
Last year at Microsoft PDC, the seminar I attended on developing multi-threaded apps warned of processors coming out in the near future featuring a significant number of cores.

However, to keep cost and temperature down on these CPUs, each of the CPUs are based on significantly less powerful infrastructure. (i.e. something like 32 cores, but each one running less than 1 ghz).

This means that apps designed to be single-threaded will end up running significantly slower. But if an app is built with multi-threading it's transactions in mind (it turns out that farming simple functions concurrently across several low-powered CPUs works out very well), there is tremendous through-put in efficiency on nearly all levels. We'll see if Intel can pull this off. This is nearly identical to the development methods Sony was promoting when targetting Cell/PS3.

SO.. don't get your hopes up that this will magically make your existing apps run faster (unless the developers in the apps you use have acknowledged CPU scalability in their implementation)]]>Aug 14th 2010 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
Wasn't that what Larrabee was supposed to be?]]>Aug 14th 2010 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/You're right. I mistook Sandy Bridge for that.
Probably for the better anyway. There is a lot of software out there that isn't ready for processing scalability like that. (This was all but admitted to us at PDC, including many of Microsoft's own applications). I guess Intel found a way of cooling things down while continuing to speed things up, thus extending the life of that software. Hopefully they will be able to leverage this technology into whatever Larrabee becomes.]]>Aug 15th 2010 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/
Shouldn't that read "single-level cell memory" (as a direct successor to the X25-E family)?]]>Aug 14th 2010 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/what are they trying to do? kill it?
probably they are happy with usb2.0 more]]>Aug 14th 2010 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/14/leaked-intel-roadmap-details-sandy-bridge-cpus-expands-ssd-line/Aug 14th 2010 10:28PM