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Intel's Sandy Bridge Computing Revolution Engineered in Haifa

(Globes) Shmulik Shelah - Intel is developing Sandy Bridge architecture for next-generation PCs, to help PCs and laptops cope with new challenges from tablets. A line of new processors that rely on Sandy Bridge architecture to link the components that form the computer's brain was unveiled at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new architecture will be installed in all standard computer product lines. Shlomit Weiss, the chief architect of Sandy Bridge at Intel Israel Ltd. over the past four years, oversaw one of the most impressive development efforts in the global processor market. She says the project included more than 1,000 software engineers at the peak. Most of the development took place in Haifa at Intel's Israeli development center. This is the second time that the capabilities of Intel's Israeli development center have been at the heart of a strategic development of such a scale. Intel developed a new architecture for PCs and laptops in Israel with the Duo Core 2, introduced in 2006. Before that, the Israeli development center's importance was seen in the Centrino processor, introduced in 2003.
2011-01-21 08:35:16
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