It appear like yesterday Intel announced the Core 2 Duo series of CPUs and enabled itself as the king of the hill for x86 CPUs. As hard as it may be to considered that was four and a half years back. Later on then Intel has been adopting their "Tick Tock" modification model, sending Core i7 Nehalem and Core i7 Gulftown on the way. Every launch holds Intel ahead of the game, firmware at the apex in terms of performance.

Now Intel bears again on their Tick Tock measure with the set up of Sandy Bridge. Sandy Bridge is Intel's performance mainstream architecture, so it will invade the heart of their lineup. For the eyes folks like us, have a glance at the image to get clue of where it lines up.