Ivy Bridge

[holeshot918]

I just heard that ivy bridge is supposed to be coming in late 2011 or early 2012, changeing from 32nm to 22nm. Does anyone know if its going to be upgradeable from current sandy bridge computers?

[SmogHog]

I just heard that ivy bridge is supposed to be coming in late 2011 or early 2012, changeing from 32nm to 22nm. Does anyone know if its going to be upgradeable from current sandy bridge computers?


Ivy Bridge
Ivy Bridge will be a die shrink of Sandy Bridge and represents a “tick” in Intel’s product line. That means the micro-architecture is mostly the same as Sandy Bridge, but it will be manufactured using 22nm process instead of 32nm. That will bring lower power consumption and thus less heat while keeping the same performance level. Unfortunately, we don’t have any information on core counts, clock speeds, model numbers, cache sizes, or the IGP. At the same core counts as SNB, we might see some fairly high clock speeds (>4GHz, anyone?) since current quad-core Sandy Bridge CPUs already offer Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz, and adding additional cache to the design is almost a given. Intel is putting additional resources into their IGP as well, so we expect to see some healthy performance and capability improvements".

"Panther Point is the codename for Intel 7-series chipsets that are set to release simultaneously with Ivy Bridge CPUs. They will come in six flavors, three of which are for the consumer market and three more for the business sector. As noted already, the socket will be the same LGA1155 that Sandy Bridge uses, with pin compatibility on the CPUs and chipsets.

You would need a Panther Point chipset to gain the improvements in Ivy Bridge CPUs.

If it were possible because the socket and pinout are the same,to put an Ivy Bridge CPU in a Sandy Bridge Motherboard that has a series 6 chipset and have it run correctly,you would probably get none of the benifits of Ivy Bridge and Panther Point.

So,why do it?

Ivy Bridge/Panther Point Info:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4318/intel-roadmap-ivy-bridge-panther-point-ssds

[holeshot918]

Oh ok well kthanks for all the helpful info! From ghe way you put it it sounds like it would it be possible to just get the panther point chipset to replace my h65 and sandy bridge cpu with the ivy bridge or is that completely wrong? But then again if they're coming out with new technology every year might just wait for the 22nm tock at the end of 2012. Maybe even hitting 5ghz?!

[SmogHog]

Oh ok well kthanks for all the helpful info! From ghe way you put it it sounds like it would it be possible to just get the panther point chipset to replace my h65 and sandy bridge cpu with the ivy bridge or is that completely wrong? But then again if they're coming out with new technology every year might just wait for the 22nm tock at the end of 2012. Maybe even hitting 5ghz?!

The chipset is soldered to the motherboard and it is not swappable.The series 6 chipset in a Sandy Bridge/Huron River notebook can't be replaced with a Panther Point chipset.

Chipsets are not available for retail sales.