Yesterday appeared some detail about intel plans up to 2012.
Thus, in 2009 intel will present the processor with the code name westmere, which is the analog Of nehaem, produced on 32 nm technological process. In 2010 Intel plans to release the new micro-architecture sandy bridge (figured as Gesher). The basic special feature of this micro-architecture will become the 8 core CPU design , each core in this case will have its own L2 cache with 512 kb, and the general divided cache in the third level will reach 16 Mb.
Furthermore, Sandy bridge processors will obtain support to the new collection SIMD AVX instructions (Advanced vectors extensions), which will replace SSE expansion. This New collection will be compatible with SSE, it will increase the registers length by two ( to 256 bits ), and will also give programmers additional three- and four commands.
In this case Intel promises, that the use of AVX will raise the operation speed of some algorithms by 90%. The first processor, produced on the 22 nm technological process, will become Ivy bridge.
This CPU in its micro-architecture will differ a little from Sandy bridge. However, revolutionary changes will occur in 2012, with haswell processor . Although the base quantity of CPU core will remain equal to 8. It is also assumed that Haswell will obtain the integrated vector coprocessor.