Hiflyer 129 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Source: Digitimes Intel recently notified its partners about plans to postpone mass shipments of its upcoming Ivy Bridge processors. Despite that the company will still announce the new products and ship a small volume of the processors in early April, mass shipments are not expected to occur until after June, according to sources from notebook players. Because most first-tier notebook vendors are having trouble digesting their Sandy Bridge notebook inventories due to the weak global economy, while Intel is also troubled by its Sandy Bridge processor inventory, the CPU giant plans to delay mass shipments of the new processors to minimize the impact, the sources noted. With Intel changing its launch schedule, notebook vendors have all started adjusting their projects for new Ivy Bridge models; however, the notebook vendors still believe the PC replacement trend is unlikely to start until after September, when Microsoft launches Windows 8, and the first three quarters of 2012 will still be a dark period for the notebook industry. However, Intel's decision to slow down its Ivy Bridge processor launch will benefit USB 3.0 chipmakers such as Renesas, ASMedia and Etron allowing them to earn an extra quarter of sales, according to sources from the chipmakers. The sources pointed out that the share of third-party USB 3.0 chipmakers in the notebook market was originally expected to drop to only around 20% in 2012, but with Intel's delay, their share is expected to climb back to 50%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharrow 107 Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 According to Intel the delay will only affect mobile dual core ivy bridge due to oversupply of previous generation chips. All other ivy bridge cpu's remain on track for April delivery. Have also seen reports that ivy bridge i7-3770 is 7% to 16% faster than sandy bridge i7-2600. They are identical except for the die shrink down to 22nm. Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moshe 16 Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 They are identical except for the die shrink down to 22nm. Nice! I think 2600 will not enable PCI-E 3.0 bandwidth while 3770 will. I have seen some deep articles claiming that FSX smoothness bottleneck can be with PCI, don't exactly remember where I have seen it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_Smith 1116 Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Well my Ivy Bridge upgrade is scheduled for June-July, just got to figure out what to do with my i7 950 and i7 2600K systems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharrow 107 Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Hey Matt Perhaps I'll pick up the 2600K system from you. PM me the details when the time comes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_Smith 1116 Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Konrad, no problems. I need to finalise everything first. Still waiting on news of the next gen nvidia cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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