Paul Ottelini Says Sandy Bridge To Generate $125 Billion In PC Sales (INTC)

Paul Otellini told the audience at the Consumer Electronics Show today that Intel's INTC new chip, code named, "Sandy Bridge," will generate an additional $125 billion in PC sales this year. The chip is popular because it combines the power of a processing chip and a stand-alone graphics chips for the low-end part of the PC market. Otellini said Sandy Bridge was the best and most exciting product he had worked on in more than three decades at the company. The chip competes with Advanced Micro Devices' AMD Fusion combo chips, as well as graphics chips from Nvidia NVDA. The chip will debut January 9. Sandy Bridge has either two or four microprocessor cores on a single chip. Game developers have called Sandy Bridge a game changer. Gabe Newell, chief executive of game developer Valve, was very positive on the chip. Newell said that his company is creating its Portal 2 game to run on the PC, and it will be able to run well on Sandy Bridge machines when it comes out in April. Sandy Bridge has 1.6 billion transistors, or basic chip components, on the chip.