Rumored Ivy Bridge Production Woes, Intel Denies Shortages
Today's Intel Ivy Bridge launch has been accompanied by rumors that production issues may be responsible for a very limited supply of processors initially.
An article published by Digitimes claims that the shortage will be severe enough that Intel will not be able to "satisfy downstream PC vendors' strong demand."
The supply situation could ease in May and June when Intel will launch an addition 13 processor models. Intel launched 14 22nm Ivy Bridge processors today, nine i5 and versions, as well as five mobile CPUs, including the i7-3920XM Extreme Edition flagship. Intel was quick to label the report as false and stated that consumers can expect plenty of supply right out of the gate. Spokespeople referred to statements made by chief executive Paul Otellini and chief financial officer Stacy Smith during the Q1 conference call.
Smith said that the 22 nm yield curve is "consistent with expectations" and processor production is ramped in three different fabs. Intel expects greater production volume than with 32 nm as that process was only scaled up from two fabs initially. However, the company admitted that the launch of Ivy Bridge was delayed by three weeks "to make sure that there was enough inventory in the pipeline." In terms of supply, CEO Paul Otellini added that the first batch of Ivy bridge processors are only quad-cores and the "bulk of those are going into desktops."
Otellini noted that Ivy Bridge will be Intel's "fastest ramping product ever, comprising nearly 1/4 of our microprocessor volume in Q2 alone and crossing over 50% of [Intel's] microprocessor shipments this fall."
Check this out
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5763/undervolting-and-overclocking-on-ivy-bridge
Part of the reason they're as hot or even hotter is because the chip has been shrunk to a smaller area meaning less area to dissipate heat.
ive been holding off on building a new computer for 4 months for this cpu
Check this out
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5763/undervolting-and-overclocking-on-ivy-bridge
Part of the reason they're as hot or even hotter is because the chip has been shrunk to a smaller area meaning less area to dissipate heat.
Well, this isn't true.
That was harsh.
Ivy Bridge is a good chip family. To insinuate that it's a failure is a little pre-mature.
I ended up getting a 2500k that runs at 5Ghz on 1.35v (CM Hyper 212+, Max temp 62c)
Hopefully it will be a while before I need to upgrade
You (and the 4 people that "liked" that comment) have no idea what you're talking about.
Actually no. Sandy Bridge is better at overclocking then Ivy Bridge is, just read Tom's review on the 3770k.
At least 5% to 8% better isn't worth 300 dollars for an upgrade, you're completely wasting your money upgrading to Ivy Bridge clock for clock if you already have a Sandy Bridge cpu.
As for PCI-E 3.0 no single graphics card yet aren't close to passing the bandwidth of PCI-E 2.0 limit, even the highend latest graphics cards in a corssfire setup can't aren't able to go past PCI-E 2.0's bandwidth limit. You would need something on the lines of a triple crossfire config with 3 highend graphics cards to be able to finally get over PCI-E 2.0's bandwidth limit and for 99% of pc gamers out there that doesn't have 6 grand or so to throw around on an exotic gaming pc system to have such specs then PCI-E 3.0 at this point is more marketing gimmick then anything that the actual gamer can't truly take advantage of.
They are hotter in relation to voltage applied.
Meaning, a 1.3v IB is much hotter than a 1.3v SB.
The thing people are missing is, IB does not need as much voltage as SB to achieve the same overclock.
a 1.1v IB is 4.5ghz..... with SB you need at least 1.3v to achieve that.
Therefore all this worry about IB running hot is absolute nonsense.
What is getting some enthusiast upset, is that it has a low ceiling for overclocking.
Yes I really hope we do see that type of improvement. Phenom II was awesomely competetive...Problem was they dragged it on for far too long instead of making a new architecture earlier. Now , they're back to playing catchup, after looking like they were already catching up when they released PH II
Silicon Lottery. Some require more, some require less. Mine runs fine @ 4.5Ghz with only 1.25v.