Sandy Bridge is the name of the new microarchitecture Intel CPUs will be using starting in 2011. Let's see what is new.

Here is a snippet: "Sandy Bridge is the name of the new microarchitecture Intel CPUs will be using starting in 2011. It is an evolution of the Nehalem microarchitecture that was first introduced in the Core i7 and also used in the Core i3 and Core i5 processors."



Link: HardwareSecrets