After Intel has introduced “tick-tock” strategy in the processor market that implied alternating the introduction of new production processes with new microarchitectures, they will hardly be able to surprise us with an unexpected launch. Now everything happens following a precise schedule. In the beginning of last year 2010 the company switched to 32 nm process, which means that dramatically new processors are scheduled to come out in the beginning of this year. Revolutionary and progressive – this is what the new widely discussed processors codenamed “Sandy Bridge” are supposed to be like.Sandy Bridge processors attract everyone’s attention for two reasons. First, their arrival is accompanied with a global refresh of the desktop and mobile platforms: besides a wide range of new processors for computer systems with different pricing and applications, Intel is also introducing a new processor socket and chipsets. Second, Sandy Bridge is a really good processor, which runs faster than any of its predecessors guaranteeing low levels of power consumption and heat dissipation.We have already discussed in detail the advantages of Sandy Bridge microarchitecture as well as the theoretical preconditions of the new processors’ upcoming success in our Intel Sandy Bridge