Intel Ivy Bridge-E Processors For Socket LGA2011 Coming in Q4 2012
The Intel Sandy Bridge-E processors for X79 motherboards with socket LGA 2011 just came out this week, but slides of the successor have already leaked out! It looks like Intel will be coming out with Ivy Bridge-E in Q4 2012! This CPU will be based on the 22nm process and have numerous improvements.
Suddently, Sandy Bridge-E makes for a sweeter deal because its platform longevity (for upgrades) is at least two years. Ivy Bridge-E, like Ivy Bridge LGA1155, will be built on the 22 nanometer silicon fabrication process. We don’t expect Ivy Bridge-E to be much more than an optical shrink of today’s Sandy Bridge-E silicon, but the shrink could leave scope for enabling some of its components otherwise locked out for the Core processor family. Sandy Bridge-E silicon physically holds 8 cores and 20 MB of L3 cache, but the fastest Core processor based on it has just 6 of those cores, and 15 MB of L3 enabled. The source at XFastest says that while Ivy Bridge-E is slated for Q4 2012, the LGA1155 Ivy Bridge will launch across Q1 and Q2 of 2012 (March~April).
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