More Intel Huron River Platform Details Revealed Discussion

Intel revealed more details of its upcoming 'SandyBridge' mobile platform at an investor's meeting May 11.

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Sandy Bridge is the architecture, Huron River is the mobile platform name.

 

Any specs revealed?

 

Monolithic architecture, 32nm, a new chipset (H61, P67 and H67 IIRC), based on HT and TB as Nehalem. Those are the most noticeable things to note I think.

 

Nice, but is this really neccessary? The current Core architecture is already top-of-the-line.

 

It's not coming until next year. AMD might have something different by then (though I wouldn't count it).

 

AMD in 2011 will bring out Llano then Bulldozer. Llano like Sandy Bridge will be a monolithic combo of cpu and gpu, then Bulldozer is that in a new architecture design.

So, just because Core i is top of the line means Intel should stop innovating? Sandy Bridge brings many enhancements to the already great Nehalem architecture like the combing of the 45nm gpu and 32nm gpu into one piece, higher Turbo Boosts and better performing hyper-threading. Intel also says you should be able to play 2 dvd movies on battery with SB. Plus TDP's will be lowering, and the graphics will be two times the performance of Core i's HD graphics.

 

Huron River to support 3D Blu-Ray via Fudzilla

 

Llano is what AMD aimed when the ATI buyout went through. "Future is fusion" where in Fusion=Llano (monolithic architecture also, with some sort of HyperThreading designed by AMD)

Intel's approach was Nehalem initially. Nehalem is the first step into Sandy Bridge. Nehalem evolved to Westmere (Arrandale) and it is to evolve into Sandy Bridge, then Ivy Bridge, and so one. Thing is, even if you score a winner, you cannot drop the ball or rename it over and over again (looks at NVIDIA G92 core).

 

I very much doubt Llano will include any sort of hyperthreading. The latest data I could find is this:

In other words, it's going to be a die shrink of the processors that just came out now, but with double the L2 cache and possibly Turbo Core (AMD's rudimentary version of Turbo Boost) that's in the desktop hexacore Thubans. We won't see hyperthreading in an AMD CPU until the next genuinely different architecture (Bulldozer).

I am almost certain that the Llano CPU will be in the same position relative to the Sandy Bridge CPU as AMD's current mobile offerings are relative to Arrandale (i.e. not even close on performance and hence dirt cheap to compete on price). The interesting question is what happens with the GPUs.

 

But as long as AMD can provide more cores at less price, they don't need HT.