Neither Ivy Bridge nor Sandy-E seems particularly interesting. Ivy Bridge seems to focus more on it's integrated GPU-stuff (vs AMD's Llano APU's) while Sandy-E seem to completely focus on high performance workstations and servers. But there will always be people with money to burn and plenty of water cooling to cool those chips.
Then we have the fact that for ordinary use (gaming etc.) 4 cores (hyperthreaded or not) is still very rarely used to it's fullest.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
