Sandy Bridge, Intel's brand new 32nm architecture will focus on dual and quad-cores. At this point there are no plans to make six-core, but at some point we are sure that Intel will push Sandy even to quad core.

Sandy Bridge is supposed to be Intel's first monolithic graphics core, as graphics will be on the same die with the CPU. The sad part is that Intel will probably make the first Fusion before AMD.

Monolithic means that Intel should go for full integration of CPU, GPU and memory controller, and this all comes in a dual or quad-core. This is clearly the successor of Lynnfield, the quad 45nm Nehalem derivative, and 32nm Clarkdale / Arrandale dual-cores.

The server/workstation market still has to evolve from Nehalem EX to Westmere EX and Sandy bridge transition won’t start before Q1 2011, and even then we are talking about dual and quad core CPUs, not six and eight-cores.

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