Intel Ivy Bridge Systems Now Slated for 1H 2012

more waiting, thanks..
to me not really a big deal, I'm still rockin' a sick i5-760 (phys-x) unit with a strong clock and optimal hardware to go with..
it's my AM2+ units with nVidia chipsets has me is waiting on AM3+ Bulldozer nVidia SLI boards (990X's) first anyways..
so go ahead and delay the launch but wait, AMD and Bulldozer is delayed again too...
WTF.?
at least AMD/Bulldozer should be out this year.... LOL
hopefully like the report says in July or whatever.

The persistent rumors that Ivy Bridge would be out towards the end of this year made me hold out on going with SB, now about another year to go, I am getting an SB now (and probably regret it when IB does get here) =\

hmmm, if bulldozer turns into a flop. I'll do a quick upgrade to current comp and wait for IB

Ivybridge is what I am getting next for sure, AMD keeps delaying their products, and they'll only compete with current sandybridge.

nobody knows that for sure..
I'm sure you have read the threads and other on-line info on it as well.
it's all speculation at the moment..

Well, Intel seems to agree with some of the roumers out about BD right now...

Bulldozer will be a flop this is why they pushed it back.
They all ready know something we do not. So why beat yourself.

Good for Intel If amd want to make us wait.. we might wait until Ivy bridge and we might let pass bulldozer by then..

I'll probably end up with one of both Intel/Ivy and AMD/Bulldozer to be honest.
I do not know of course yet how these set-up will be, but one day..
whenever that will be.

This is what happens when your competition doesn't press you to release new products...

How much you wanna bet this is because of preliminary reports of the performance of AMD's Bulldozer chips? All of a sudden, Intel isn't as afraid of the competition, so they start delaying chip releases to milk more out of the current ones.

Who cares if they're being released q1 2012.. they're releasing faster than SLOW AMD is.. Ivy Bridge is going to eat AMD alive.. downrate me all you want AMD fanboys.

Nice, was thinking of going sandy but will hold off till Ivy comes out.

Just to give this a positive spin for AMD, it could be yield issues causing the delay. I'm also not sure if the 3D architecture is all that well suited for faster clocks due to heat transfer issues.

I can't recall Ivy Bridge ever being slated for a Q4 2011 release, but if it ever was that's really old news. For as long as I can remember every leaked road map placed Sandy Bridge-E in Q4 2011 followed by Ivy Bridge in Q1 2012, so I'm not really sure what this article is talking about. But I guess Intel is being a little more ambiguous about their release schedule now, saying 1H 2012 instead.

First time I've heard of those issues...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4313 [...] in-2h-2011

Lower TDP, higher performance per watt, higher transistor density, lower voltages, significantly higher clocks thanks to faster switching speeds. All positives so far.

Also, some additional information about Ivy Bridge if anyone's interested...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4386 [...] idge-wafer

Apparently the quad core version will have 1 billion+ transistors and measure roughly 162mm^2 (compared to 995 million & 216mm^2 for Sandy Bridge).

This is bad news for consumers but good for AMD so it can have more time to compete with Intel’s Sandy Bridge, and maybe with Sandy Bridge E.

How long has Bulldozer's release been "just around the corner"? It seems like it has been at least a couple of years.. It is beginning to seem like the DNF of CPUs.

Also, last November I was at a conference and I saw that same slide showing Ivy Bridge in late Q1/early Q2 of 2012. I suppose that since the slide is out there already I am no longer bound by the Intel confidential agreement (not an NDA but very similar to one, kind of like a weak NDA).

If the road map is right, does it mean that Ivy Bridge comes first in the mainstream segment? Sandy seems to hold extreme and premium segments allso in 2012...
Any news about that?

It will be worth the wait, for anyone who can hold out on building a new rig wait. Trust me it will be well worth it. Now I have said too much already and will leave it at that.

That's Sandy Bridge-E, X79, LGA 2011, in the high-end extreme segment. It's not the current LGA 1155 Sandy Bridge which Ivy Bridge is slated to replace in the performance/mainstream segments. Ivy Bridge isn't intended for the high end segment and will not replace Sandy Bridge-E on LGA 2011. Hopefully Intel intends to do a 22nm process shrink of Sandy Bridge-E later in the year as well, but this might not happen due to their tight tick-tock release schedule.

I told you all that it was coming in 2012 with DDR4 and quad-channel. No one ever believes me...

Intel is trying to profit as much and as long as possible from Sandy Bridge.

So this maybe the effect of the absent of AMD’s competition, hope Bulldozer would come in July and would compete with Sandy Bridge and hope to next generation Bulldozers will correct this situation and would compete with Intel’s offerings (Ivy Bridge).

I don't know why you'll regret it. SB is an amazing chip on a great platform. Easily the best midrange platform Intel has ever had. IB will be faster for sure but that's a given, but it also depends on what your current system is. I went from the Q9450 to a 2500k (although was waiting for IB as well), but a year from now is way too long to wait. I'm a gamer, and the Q9450 was bottlenecking my xfire 6870 setup like crazy, with SB, my FPS has gone up over 100% compared to my old setup. Easily worth it. If your system is a 1366 or something pretty recent, then I'd say wait for IB, if you have something older like me, it is worth the jump

Ivy Bridge will be more exciting than Sandy Bridge is, so I hope AMD could catch up with Sandy Bridge using its Bulldozer.

You're making it sound like competing with SB would be a bad thing? If AMD released BD and it competes or (speaking blasphemy here) ends a little ahead of SB, then AMD is back on track. I don't see why anyone wants to see either company do poorly. If one falters like AMD did with the quads, the other takes a bit of a lead and we lose out as consumers. No competition means slow progression. In the end, Intel's "Tick-Tock" would turn into a "Tick............yawn..........Tock", and possibly see generations of video cards pass, which would be useless due to the CPU and chipset bottle necks

...and we're back to marking comments down for no apparent reason. I know a lot of people disagree, but I wish the rating system was broken again. Too often I see a perfectly reasonable question or opinion get marked down to oblivion by some of Tom's less enlightened following. Noobs and fanbois seem to go on illegitimate thumbs down rampages far more often then I encounter trolls or blatant idiots commenting on an article (which is really the only time I feel the negative rating system is necessary).

AMD is done in the high end CPU business. BD was designed to compete with what intel was putting out 6 months ago. It won't even touch SB let alone Ivy. AMD has fallen so fast and so hard in the CPU market.

according to that slide IB will not be for extreme performance, does that strike anyone else as being odd?