A French Tech website CanardPlus have got their hands on slides from an upcoming Intel presentation. The slide starts off with Nehalem processors, which Intel will ship under Core i7 and Xeon label. The i7 well see Intel’s first big architectural change in two years, new point-to-point bus technology and return of Hyperthreading will be the main features. Intel will discuss the technology in detail at Developer Forum and will ship the processors starting this fall.
From here, the slides go in a territory, about which Intel has never talked in detail before. Intel has talked a lot about its “Tick-Tock” cycle, Tick stands for decrease in size of manufacturing technology like in 2007 Intel introduced 45nm manufacturing technology with Penryn processors. Where as, Tock stands for advancement in processor technology, for example it will introduce new Nehalem architecture in 2008. Intel will continue its tick-tock cycle and will shrink the die size from 45nm to 32nm in 2009 and will introduce Westmere processors based on Nehalem architecture.
 2010 will be a tock year and Intel will launch Sandy Bridge architecture. The Sandy Bridge will introduce support for new programming features known as Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). AVX will replace today’s 128bits SSE instructions with 256 bits instructions that will support as many as three or four calculations in one instruction. The new extensions should accelerate performance in media encoding, 3D modeling and vector based math functions. The Sandy Bridge chips will be built with the capability to handle at least eight cores on a single chip. The L2 cache will be much less at 512KB, but the decrease in L2 cache will be made up by a large 16MB L3 cache.
In 2011 Intel will shrink the size of manufacturing technology to 22nm (tick) and the new processors will be called Ivy Bridge. Intel will introduce Haswell architecture in 2012 (tock) that will add new memory cache system and a revolutionary power management system. Intel will discuss the upcoming processors in more detail at its Develop Forum that is starting on 19th August.