Last year, Intel released all new 2010 Intel Core 'Arrandale' processors for their mobile platforms that brought forth better performance and some very nice power savings. In all honesty, last year's technology was basically their previous generation 45nm architecture that was enhanced and shrunk down to 32nm. This is part of Intel's 'tick-tock' model to continue rapid technology innovation. The first year Intel releases the 'tick' and that means a new silicon process technology or a die shrink of their existing microarchitecture. The second year is the 'tock' and that means an entirely new processor microarchitecture to fully utilize the manufacturing process learned in the previous 'tock'. Today, we are looking at 32nm processor called Sandy Bridge that is designed from the ground up to have more performance than any mobile processor that you have ever seen before!