Intel to Detail 22nm Ivy Bridge CPUs at ISSCC
At the 2012 ISSC (International Solid-State Circuits) conference, that is scheduled to take place in February of next year, Intel will disclose additional details about its upcoming Ivy Bridge processors based on the 22nm fabrication process. Other details about this chip were not released, but we do know that the Ivy Bridge presentation will be accompanied by another Intel talk to a dedicated low-power CPU. This will be built using the 32nm process technology and Consumers just 737 mW at 1.2V while running at 915MHz. Ivy Bridge is the code name used for the the 22nm shrink of the current Sandy Bridge chips and features basically the same architecture, but with a few minor tweaks and improvements. This includes a new on-die GPU that will come With full DirectX 11 support as well as than with 30% more ES’s Sandy Bridge, in order to offer up to 60% faster performance that current core CPUs according to Intel. In addition, the processor cores have also received some minor tweaks as their performance was slightly increased and AVX Intel has updated the integrated PCI Express 3.0 controller to the standard design. In the mobile version of Ivy Bridge, all these improvements are paired with a configurable TDP , Which Enable the CPU to greatly surpass its maximum thermal design power when additional cooling is provided (like when placed on a notebook cooling stand). According to some previous rumors, Intel should already be shipping the first Ivy Bridge QS (qualification sample) chips to its partners. The retail version of Ivy Bridge is expected to arrive in March or April of 2012.
The talks will focus on an entry-level desktop or notebook Ivy Bridge Which processor uses four IA-32 cores, a graphics-processing core, memory and a PCI Express controller, all built on the 22nm fabrication node, according to EETimes’ s findings.
