The 32nm quad core chip, successor to Nehalem.
Surprisingly, CanardPC claims that the chip has already taped out in June. News had already surfaced that "Clarkdale", a 32nm chip, would be released sooner than expected. A tape out so early is very unexpected for an architecture that's still at least one year and a half away, which, if true, may mean that Intel will do some reshuffling of it's roadmap.
Like "Clarkdale", "Sandy Bridge" is going to feature an integrated graphics core but this time an on-die one. The release of this new architecture is expected sometime in late 2010, after the 32nm "Nehalem" based "Westmere" core - family of which "Clarkdale" is part - is released, in 2010.
Another of "Sandy Bridge" major features is the support for Intel's Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX), which increases the width of vector instructions from 128bits to 256bits, among other new instructions.
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