Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/10/intel-to-show-off-sandy-bridge-at-idf-next-week-amd-counters-wi/
Now this is what you call a juicy standoff. Intel has announced that Paul Otellini will grace the stage at
IDF next week with a demo of his company's next-gen CPU/GPU chip, codenamed
Sandy Bridge, and not to be outdone, AMD has immediately retorted with plans to put its own
Zacate competitor up on display -- at the same time, in the same city, but at a slightly different location. Both Zacate and Sandy Bridge meld general-purpose and graphical processing duties into one slice of silicon, consolidating the traditionally discrete CPU and GPU into a power-efficient do-it-all chip. You'll find details of where AMD's impromptu demo will be taking place after the break, whereas the Intel Developer Forum will probably be discoverable by the masses of bespectacled engineers trudging in its general direction. Boy, San Fran's gonna be one happening place next week!
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