Sandy Bridge
Intel released Sandy Bridge in January 2011 as the major successor to Nehalem. Core i7, i5 and i3 variants were released simultaneously.
Family
- Core i7 exhibits the highest clock speeds and largest speedups from Turbo Boost. It uses SMT and provides vPro and AES instructions.
- Core i5 does not support SMT.
- Core i3 does not support vPro or AES.