High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Haswell is the codename for a processor microarchitecture to be developed by Intel`s Oregon team as the successor to the Sandy Bridge architecture. Haswell will use a 22 nm process. CPUs based on the Haswell microarchitecture are expected to be released in 2013, approximately one year after the March-April 2012 release of Ivy Bridge, according to Intel`s Tick-Tock strategy. Intel showed a working Haswell chip at the 2011 Intel Developers Forum.