What is Ivy Bridge in the CPU?

According to the latest roadmap that Intel has just shown to its customers, the company's next-generation Ivy Bridge 22nm architecture is expected to be unveiled in the first half of 2012, closely aligned with the Tick-tock that the company has been following recently. In terms of mass production, if Intel's chief executive could be considered a credible source, the company is expected to officially start the trial in the fourth quarter of this year, but it is true that Ivy Bridge 22nm is officially on the market until the first half of 2012. This was also confirmed by Paul Otellini at the IDF conference in 2010.

Ivy Bridge will be the third Daicouri processor (the 3rd generation Intel Core processor), according to the Intel official website, which means continuing with the naming of the Core IX series.

32nm Sandy Bridge has implemented a single chip package for the processor, graphics core, and video engine, with the graphics core having up to 12 execution units, supporting DX10.1, OpenGL 2.1, and performance up to 1.5-twice times the current core i5/i3 set. On this basis, the 22nm Ivy Bridge will double the number of executive units to up to 24, which will naturally lead to a further leap in performance. It has also been reported that Ivy Bridge will finally join the DX11 support.

The current 32 NM bridge architecture processor was officially launched on January 5 in 2011, so for the next 22 nm Ivy Bridge Architecture processor, we can expect it to be launched in about a year's time. Another new desktop platform based on Ivy Bridge architecture will be called Maho Bay, and the corresponding chipset for this platform will be the Panther point PCH. Naturally, there is also a Ivy Bridge mobile platform for the desktop platform. Future consolidation trends in the processor sector are still quite obvious, and Intel will still be able to integrate the graphics core into the CPU, with a DMI bus chipset and support for FDI capabilities, the flexible Display interface technology, This technology can support users to output two or three screen display. Intel promises that the future Ivy Bridge will have a better energy efficiency ratio, first of all from the more advanced 22 nm manufacturing process, and of course other optimizations are important factors in energy efficiency improvement.