Intel Developer Forum is one event packed full of interesting announcements and this fall edition seems to be even more so, since Intel just detailed their future Sandy Bridge processor architecture that will be available starting in early 2011.

For those of you that have been living under a rock until now, Sandy Bridge is the code name of Intel's upcoming processor family, the planned successor to Nehalem based chips.

This uses the new 32nm manufacturing process together with a new “ring” type architecture that has a built-in processor graphics engine to share resources such as cache, or a memory reservoir, with the CPU core in order to improve the processors graphics and computing power.

Other improvements include a dedicated media processing unit that offers hardware acceleration for video editing, the new Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) 256-bit instruction set meant to improve the speed of floating point intensive applications and an enhanced version of Intel Turbo Boost that automatically shifts or reallocates processor cores and processor graphics resources to accelerate performance.  

"Our upcoming 2nd Generation Intel Core processor family represents the biggest advance in computing performance and capabilities over any previous generation.  

In addition to offering these features inside Intel-based laptops, we plan to scale these advances across our server data center and embedded computing product portfolio," said Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group.

It seems like Intel is really set to deliver with this new Sandy Bridge chips, but we still have some time to wait until this new processor will hit the streets and be properly benchmarked.

Until then, however, I'll let you take a look at the future Sandy Bridge processor line up, since this was leaked some time ago.   

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