

The Ivy Bridge 22nm story gets even better. The Intel Core i5-3317U is an ULV-processor for laptops based on the Ivy Bridge architecture released in Q2 2012.Due to Hyperthreading, the two cores can handle up to four. Better graphics will reduce the need for a separate GPU, so lesser laptops will be cheaper. Even though Ivy Bridge will utilize Socket 1155 it appears that you will still need a new motherboard, isnt that just peachy news. Haswell is the codename for a processor microarchitecture developed by Intel as the 'fourth-generation core' successor to the Ivy Bridge (which is a die shrink/tick of the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture). And that's going to be even more the case when Intel rolls out mobile Ivy Bridge chips. The new chipsets have native USB 3.0 support and PCI Express 3.0, the lanes for which come directly from the Ivy Bridge CPU, but the jury is still out on whether the jump from PCIe 2.0 to 3.0 makes any real difference, particularly when it comes to gaming.Īnd most existing Sandy Bridge-oriented boards have USB 3.0.īut if you're thinking about moving from an older platform then Ivy Bridge is clearly the way to go. Well, if you already have a second-generation based system, then there’s no real point in upgrading. This paper will go over some of the details of Intels latest Core offering, the first 22nm design code-named Ivy Bridge. But what is the Ivy Bridge user experience really likely to be? At the time of writing, there are six new 7-series chipsets, three for the consumer market - Z77, Z75 and H77 - and three for the business sector: B75, Q75 and Q77.Īll this technology is great, and it's nice to have kit that delivers more performance yet consumes less power than before.
