Intel Initiates Mass Production of Sandy Bridge Microprocessors.

It's like Clarkdale all over again!

"[In the third quarter] we began volume production of Sandy Bridge and expect to ship revenue units in Q4 as we prepare for systems launch in the first quarter of 2011. Sandy Bridge represents the largest increase in computing performance in our history. This is a truly stunning product that we cannot wait to bring to market. Early demand from customers is much greater than we originally expected and we anticipate a very fast ramp," said Paul Otellini, chief executive officer of Intel, during the most recent conference call with financial analysts.

Of course as many of us know Clarkdale lunched during CES, and while Intel was nice enough to supply "us" with a Core i5-661 processor it took almost 6 months to get an H55 board to test it on.

It even did 5.5Ghz under phase!

I highly doubt this trend will repeat when Sandy Bridge launches, but then again who is to say "we" didn't get our Sandy Bridge processor samples already?

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