Intel Sandy Bridge

Intel Sandy Bridge Intel

Most processor upgrades are incremental, touting small speed boosts and slight bumps to a computer’s battery life. The new generation of Intel chips takes a more substantial leap. The iSeries chips, code-named Sandy Bridge, run at up to twice the speed of their predecessors and clock up to 10 hours of battery life. Intel combined the CPU and the graphics processor onto a single 0.6-inch piece of silicon. Such a formation reduces data’s travel time from component to component by replacing lengths of wire with nearly a billion close-knit microscopic transistors. Laptops from $500