Ivy Bridge Deskstop Processor 2012 SKU Strategy (Preliminary)

[onethreehill]

CPU's TDP are quite low
http://www.chiphell.com/thread-276688-1-1.html
Translated
http://translate.google.com.sg/trans...76688-1-1.html

[ajaidev]

Thats the point these chips are more focused on mobile computing because AMD turned its focus on mobile computing with fusion. This is Intels response better/similar performance at a lower power rating.

[Olivon]

Repost Mr Lee

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=1#post4973377

[zalbard]

Thats the point these chips are more focused on mobile computing because AMD turned its focus on mobile computing with fusion. This is Intels response better/similar performance at a lower power rating.

They are still quad cores. Intel had its first quad cores made using 65nm, and these are 22nm. So of course their TDP is going to be low.

[Hornet331]

Dualcore TDP drops form 65W to 35W for the normal version... I guess we'll see something like 15-20W for the LV version... quite nice

But naming scheme... IB -> 3700K really... wth. SB-E is also 39xx so IB-E will be 4xxx and haswell will also be 4xxx?

[bamtan2]

CPU's TDP are quite low
http://www.chiphell.com/thread-276688-1-1.html
Translated
http://translate.google.com.sg/trans...76688-1-1.html

honestly guys these chinese translations go right over my head. I'm lost.

all I can IMAGINE he is saying is: #1, motherboard manufacturers are done their ivy bridge boards, and are moving on to haswell boards.

and: #2, there will be no 6-core ivy bridge. meaning there will be no XEON/enthusiast ivy bridge. meaning EITHER: A) X79 will NEVER see new chips past the first SNB-E chips, and haswell will replace it in a year or whatever, or B) or there WILL be new SNB-E X79 chips in a year even when haswell comes out, or C) ...the next chips for X79 will be haswell.

yep I'm lost.

All I can think up myself is that X58 and nehalem->westmere has been a long-lived, high-performance, and top-of-the-charts platform, and will CONTINUE to be after X79 and SNB-E come out. Therefore, since such long life is not good business for intel, I imagine they have reason to kill X79 before it survives 3 years like X58 has. X58 has turned out to be good enough to last you 5 years after 2008, and still keep you in the top 5% of the steam survey. Intel wants you upgrading more often, I think!

After reading this, I'm happy that X79 might see a haswell chip, and I'm sad that X79 might never see ANY new chip. What if there is an x89+haswell in a year?

[naokaji]

honestly guys these chinese translations go right over my head. I'm lost.
and: #2, there will be no 6-core ivy bridge. meaning there will be no XEON/enthusiast ivy bridge.

Ivy Bridge is the low end / mid range consumer cpu range, just like its predecessor Sandy Bridge, due to that there will never be a Ivy Bridge Cpu with more than 4 physical cores.
All it means is that anything with more than 4 cores will have a different codename.

[RPGWiZaRD]

I just hope these won't have some low random multi limit before becoming power/heat limited cuz on the paper these sound like they could be OC champs on air/water... 5.5GHz air or so. Doubt these are gonna be much better for LN2 though but yea at least I hope it won't hit the same multi limits as SB. 4 physical cores is definitely getting a bit outdated in 2012 but I could live with that if performance per watt and overclockability is good and the pricing is about the same as it was for SB.

[bamtan2]

Ivy Bridge is the low end / mid range consumer cpu range, just like its predecessor Sandy Bridge, due to that there will never be a Ivy Bridge Cpu with more than 4 physical cores.
All it means is that anything with more than 4 cores will have a different codename.

you have contributed nothing. obviously a different ivy bridge would have a different name. did you see the chinese guy say there would be a different ivy bridge with a different name? did you get anything out of what he said?

[Tao~]

So it seems we might be having 35W Quads and 25W Duals in the mobile segment as well

How I wish they release 95W quads @ 4Ghz rather than limiting performance by keeping them in lower TDP brackets, atleast for the Desktop i7. Or is it the magic of the 3D Transistors ?