Intel’s hot new next-gen chipset looks like it’ll be making an appearance in Apple’s computer ranges rather soon, with Ivy Bridge processors popping up in some Apple tech benchmarks.
You are, no doubt, quite familiar with Intel’s CPU-release “cadence” of tick-tock by now. If not, the short story is that every tock brings a major breakthrough, while ticks are decent upgrades but nothing to Twitter home about. That’s not necessarily the case with Intel’s latest tick, the Ivy Bridge CPU. Sure, the performance enhancements on the x86 side of the aisle won’t exactly knock you on your tuchus, but they’re still decent. The upgrades to the graphics core, however, make Ivy Bridge more noteworthy.
Today is the day that the full veil comes off Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors, which will be more commonly known as the third generation of Core processors. With that comes stats and specs about what Ivy Bridge is built on and what it will be capable of. Here’s everything you need to know about Ivy Bridge.
Hey! Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors are here! As such, there are some new Ivy Bridge-equipped machines from Acer, which means they’ll be within financial reach for many. But I hope you like desktop PCs, because that’s all you’re getting for now.
Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge platform has been touted and celebrated for months, and the thing hasn’t so much as been touched by nary a consumer. But now the anticipated CPU has made it into devices, and a couple of lucky guys have gotten their hands on it early. How does it perform? It’s powerful. Real powerful. Like faster-than-a-laptop-with-discrete-graphics powerful.
Intel is set to roll out its latest generation of processors later this year despite a minor setback affecting ultra low-voltage models — the ones destined for super slim notebooks. By normal standards, the launch should mark a new “tick” in the company’s product roadmap, but Intel is going beyond just shrinking the current 32nm Sandy Bridge processor by introducing some fundamental advancements along with its new 22nm process.
Despite reports that Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors would be delayed until June, CNET now says that Intel will start rolling out the highly anticipated processors on April 23.
There have been suggestions floating around that Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors would arrive later than anticipated on the market. Now, those rumours have been confirmed as true by a senior Intel employee, so we won’t see the processors in April as previously expected.
We’ve been hearing for years that integrated graphics — meaning your computer doesn’t have its own, separate graphics card — won’t catch up to the beefier cards, but it’ll be good enough some day soon. Hasn’t happened yet. But these reported benchmarks of Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors from CPU World look pretty promising.
