Delay In Crossing The Ivy Bridge
Intel is the largest producer of computer processing chips in the world. Nearly every desktop and laptop uses Intel’s chips – Pentiums, Core i3, etc. – and they are reliable processors. Intel calls its current line of processors Sandy Bridge. Intel originally released the Sandy Bridge processing chips in January 2011, after announcing them in 2009.
This year Intel announced that the successor to Sandy Bridge, which the company has called Ivy Bridge, would be coming to the public soon. At first, the date for the release of the Ivy Bridge chips was supposed to be April, but Intel recently pushed the date back to June. This is due to a new manufacturing process Intel uses to create the Ivy Bridge chips.
The Sandy Bridge processors have transistors 32 nanometers in size, but the Ivy Bridge processors’ transistors are only 22 nanometers. This reduction in size also comes with an increase in processing power because of a new way that Intel is creating the transistors. Transistors are the building blocks of processing chips. They send the necessary electrical signals throughout the computer that cause it to function. This new method for creating transistors allows Intel to use less energy for their processors and increase output from the chips.
The first computers expected to debut with Ivy Bridge processors are ultrabooks from Acer, Lenovo, and Hewlett-Packard, but that could change with the delay. As Ultrabooks, these Ivy Bridge laptops will be ultrathin, light, and fast. The manufacturers intend for the Ultrabooks to fill the perceived gap between laptops and tablets by being portable, lightweight, and powerful. The Ivy Bridge processors should help with those specifications because these are the most powerful, smallest chips yet from Intel.
With these smaller, faster processing chips, Intel is also planning to expand into the mobile phone category. At the Mobile World Conference this year, mobile phone makers Gigabyte, Lava and ZTE debuted some of the first Intel-powered phones. These Intel-powered phones will make their way to the United States by the end of the year.
Many mobile phones currently use Nvidia’s Tegra processors or ARM processors. Intel is only just beginning to break into the mobile phone and tablet areas, but as it does, the company plans to prove that it can compete with these other companies. As early as next year, Intel has plans to release another new line of processors, codenamed Haswell, that are even faster and more advanced than the Ivy Bridge processors!
Despite the delay, the Ivy Bridge processor will continue to keep Intel as a dominant company in the microprocessor industry.
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