Sandy Bridge Will Have Special Media Accelerators

[gaurang]

The special media acceleration circuitry coupled with graphics performance boost make Sandy Bridge worth looking forward to.

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[Rastalovich]

Think this will be in the form of AVX and/or AES, one of the newer instruction sets. Something akin to processors having MMX way back when or revisions of SSE now.

Wonder if AMD have gotten wind of this ?

EDIT: Bull' knows all about it apparently, and the other new instruction sets. Kind of a non-statement from Intel imo.