If you want a smaller Macbook Pro, you’ve got to put up with a lower specification processor, but that could change with Intel’s newly minted Ivy Bridge processor family.
Ivy Bridge is Intel’s next generation of processors, and by normal standards it should do nothing more than make the current 32nm Sandy Bridge processor a 22nm processor. But Intel is calling Ivy Bridge ‘Tick Plus’ because they’re making some changes to the architecture alongside the die shrink that will make it another significant upgrade.
Things are clearly better in computerland, at least looking at Intel’s numbers: Revenue this quarter was $US10.6 billion, which up 28 per cent ($US2.3 billion) over last year, with net income at $US2.3 billion – which is $US2 billion, or 875 per cent, more than a year ago. Clearly, somebody’s buying a lot of something with Intel inside. [Intel]
