David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 12/23/11 wrote:
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>The examples I found were all Westmere/Nehalem/Penryn/Atom based. I do not know of any SNB derivatives without AVX.

Do not underestimate the power of stupid marketing droids in large numbers, check the supported instruction sets:

http://ark.intel.com/products/53414/Intel-Celeron-Processor-G530-%282M-Cache-2_40-GHz%29
http://ark.intel.com/products/53415/Intel-Celeron-Processor-G530T-%282M-Cache-2_00-GHz%29
http://ark.intel.com/products/53416/Intel-Celeron-Processor-G540-%282M-Cache-2_50-GHz%29

And the Pentiums too, no trace of AVX:

http://ark.intel.com/products/53480/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G620-%283M-Cache-2_60-GHz%29
http://ark.intel.com/products/53481/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G620T-%283M-Cache-2_20-GHz%29
http://ark.intel.com/products/53482/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G622-%283M-Cache-2_60-GHz%29
http://ark.intel.com/products/53483/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G630-%283M-Cache-2_70-GHz%29
http://ark.intel.com/products/53484/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G630T-%283M-Cache-2_30-GHz%29
http://ark.intel.com/products/53485/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G632-%283M-Cache-2_70-GHz%29
http://ark.intel.com/products/53490/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G840-%283M-Cache-2_80-GHz%29
http://ark.intel.com/products/53491/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G850-%283M-Cache-2_90-GHz%29
http://ark.intel.com/products/53492/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G860-%283M-Cache-3_00-GHz%29

No trace of AVX in sight and these are all Sandy Bridge derivatives.