And -- surprise, surprise -- this refresh adds a USB 3.0 port and Intel Sandy Bridge processor, which the company says should bump the rated battery life to a max of 11 hours, up from eight.
You can rest assured that hundreds -- if not trillions -- of new laptops will be rolling off of production lines this quarter with Intel's Sandy Bridge platform inside, and those looking for a little love over in Japan won't have to wait much longer.
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Cloud Ready Client makes use of instrumentation that Intel has embedded in its new Sandy Bridge-generation processors (which explains why Lenovo introduced the capability at IDF).
Intel CEO Paul Otellini cited healthy Sandy Bridge uptake several times in the earnings call, clearly indicating a solid launch, which positively affected average selling prices.
Demand for notebook PCs based on the new Sandy Bridge line of Intel (INTC) processors has fallen shy of expectations, FBR Capital analyst Craig Berger asserted in a research note this morning.
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We knew it was Intel's plan to launch its Sandy Bridge or Core 2011 processors at CES, but leave it to Chipzilla to throw in some total surprises ahead of the show.
In September 2010, Intel launched its second-generation core architecture, Sandy Bridge, a 32-nanometer chip that can put CPUs and GPUs onto a single piece of silicon designed for tasks like handling high-definition video.
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Intel is expected to begin shipping its next generation microprocessor family codenamed Sandy Bridge in Q4 of 2010.
Intel is going to launch its next generation CPU (central processing unit) architecture Sandy Bridge in January 2011.
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