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IT-techBlog: Home of MobileTech. What is Intel Sandy Bridge, and What it Means for Consumers | Notebooks.com. This week at the Intel Developer Forum Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel announced the next generation of processors that many consumers will see in their laptops, tablets and desktops in 2011. The new processors, called Sandy Bridge, are aimed at meeting the media demands of many consumers who want to use their laptops to edit and share high quality photos, HD video and even play games while delivering a better overall user experience. While the events at IDF are geared for developers and “geeks” we wanted to break down what the new Sandy Bridge processor platform means for you, the average consumer, so that you can make a smart shopping decision now and in the future. What is Sandy Bridge, and why should I care? Sandy Bridge processors are the next version of the Intel Core i processors that you’ll find inside many notebooks at Best Buy and other retailers.

Credit: Laptop Mag How will Sandy Bridge Affect the Price of my next notebook? Yes! What about battery life on Sandy Bridge processors? Atom N550 posts - Business Tech. Elements 2010 – Bunch of Bloggers Give Their Impressions. Dell Flips the Tablet Concept Around - Digits. Razer and Sixense bring precise motion control to PC gaming | CES 2010. LAS VEGAS--With all three home consoles supporting motion control in one way or another it's certainly odd that PC gaming has yet to adopt the technology. Traditionally, PC gaming is the platform others look to emulate but in the current generation of Wii remotes, Sixaxis controllers, and Project Natal , gesture-based gaming on the PC remains untouched. At CES 2010 we've found that this is about to change. High-end PC gaming accessory manufacturer Razer, in conjunction with Sixense, have teamed up to make precise motion control on the PC a reality.

Better yet, the companies are doing it with the help of videogame developer Valve. Using an electromagnetic field sent out from a single transmitter, the two-controller setup is able to create an exact one-to-one duplication of movements onscreen. During our demo of the unit, we watched Sixense's CTO and Chief Architect Jeff Bellinghausen conduct an impressive illustration of just how accurate the device performs. Razer building motion-sensing exercise peripheral using Sixense tech, handheld sticks slated for 2011 (video) We're honestly not certain what it has to do with Intel, but here's some welcome news for the gaming and home exercise fronts -- Razer told the IDF 2010 crowd that the Sixense motion-sensing sticks it showed off at CES will finally arrive sometime "early next year. " What's more, the company's been hard at work miniaturizing the one-to-one motion control tech into an exercise band, and while we've no word on when that's due or how much a "personal doctor" might cost, you can find a close-up (of a render, natch) after the break to see what it might look like (and video of the handheld sticks, if you're game).

Comments. Intel Sandy Bridge - Is Intel's Sandy Bridge a graphics game changer? Paul Otellini, Intel’s CEO, holding a wafer of Intel’s latest chips As we get closer to next week’s Intel Developer Conference, you are probably hearing more and more about Intel’s Sandy Bridge. Sandy Bridge is the codename for the new generation of Core i7/i5/i3 processors (CPUs) from Intel.

After introducing and propagating the Core ix architecture last year, Intel is on the verge of making it smaller, faster, cheaper – the end game for any semiconductor company. The new chip will be discussed at next week’s IDF, but should hit the market sometime in Q1 2011, which is a normal PC “refresh” period of the year. Sandy Bridge has the particularity of embedding a graphics processor (GPU), and although this won’t be a high-end GPU, its performance is set to eclipse anything that Intel has done before. But the stories of “imminent death” for the competition are *largely exaggerated* (admittedly, scaring the pants of investors does generate more page views) – here’s another such story.