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Intel Sandy Bridge

Realizes: Mainstream PC and laptop compute workloads (productivity, media, client/server) on x86-64 platforms.

Intel's Sandy Bridge microarchitecture fused its CPU cores with the first-generation Intel HD Graphics, an improved branch predictor, and AVX support into a unified CMOS design to deliver deterministic x86-64 compute for mainstream PCs and laptops.

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Mainstream Sandy Bridge PC/laptop

Consumer desktops and laptops ran Sandy Bridge chips to combine the integrated GPU, improved branch predictor, and AVX-augmented x86 processing for productivity, streaming, and virtualization workloads.

CISC x86-64 instruction execution with AVX extensions, out-of-order execution, and Intel HD Graphics shaders. nanoseconds per cycle desktop/laptop tens of picojoules per instruction (32 nm CMOS)