Intel Sandy Bridge to Bring USB 3.0 and PCI Express 3.0 Support

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Submitted by lalit on March 1, 2010 - 7:56pm.

Intel’s next generation processor architecture for laptop codenamed Sandy Bridge will be launched in Q4 2010. Intel hasn’t provided much information about the architecture but Hardmac has posted two small pieces of the information:

In addition to USB 3.0, the chipset integrated into these chips will support the standard PCI Express 3.0 that will once more double the data flow of this standard. It will be important the data transfers with the graphics chips but also with other components placed on the motherboard.
Intel has told its partners that battery life of Sandy Bridge machines will significantly increase. With Sandy Bridge users will be able to play two Blu-ray movies back-to-back on a single charge.

Intel will ship processors based on Sandy Bridge architecture by end of 2010.