Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Intel, Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge between

As already mentioned at length in these days Intel is having to deal with the problem recently experienced in their Sandy Bridge microarchitecture. The production of the third revision of chip PCH, bug-free project was initiated in order to ensure the availability by April, as was initially predicted.

Leading manufacturers and OEMs have launched a campaign to return and replace the sample breakdown. According to Intel, the motherboard chipset generation belonging to the "defective" will be tested and, if there are no bugs of any kind, will be marketed. In addition to managing the current emergency, Intel is already at work on Ivy Bridge future architecture that will use technology to 22 nm and will provide superior performance.

According to preliminary rumors should achieve an increase of 20% for the CPU section and 30% for the integrated Intel GPU HD. Just for the graphics improvements are expected to more sensitive, with a DirectX 11 graphics engine Stream Processor and an amount of between 16 and 24. The future will exploit CPU Socket LGA 1155 and the baby will be accompanied by the chipset Panther Point.

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