Report: Intel Scheduling 22 nm Ivy Bridge for April 2012

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Following a report that AMD is scrapping the production of its 28 nm processor at GlobalFoundries, there is a note that Intel may also be delaying at least some of its 22 nm processors due to manufacturing hiccups.

Since the introduction of its tick-tock cadence back in 2005, Intel traditionally unveiled a new generation of die shrinks at the end of uneven years, but the 45 nm and 32 nm products appeared to be squeezed into those years, while the actual volume rollout occurred several months later. Heise.de reports that 22 nm Core i3000 processors won't make it into 2011. Instead, Intel's Ivy Bridge platform is likely to debut around April 2012. Intel's (32 nm) Xeon E5 is delayed to spring 2012 as well.

There is no information about the reason of the possible delays. Last week, a report suggested that AMD is also dealing with some manufacturing problems.

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I really hope AMD can stay alive :injured:

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Website Details Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge Desktop Processor Lineup

A Russian website made a list detailing a slew of upcoming Ivy Bridge desktop processors for socket LGA1155 motherboards, complete with model numbers, core counts, number of threads, clockspeeds, Turbo speeds, L3 cache, and TDP ratings. There are 18 models in all, and all but one of them are quad-core parts (the one that isn't is a dual-core processor).

Russian website overclockers.ru compiled the list based on information it plucked from Chinese colleagues over at CoreSCN. At the top of the list is an unlocked Core i7 3770K processor with four cores and eight threads. It's clocked at 3.5GHz (3.9GH Turbo) with 8MB of L3 cache and a 77W TDP.

Bringing up the rear is a Core i5 3330S processor with four cores and four threads. It's clocked at 2.7GHz (3.2GHz Turbo) with 6MB of L3 cache and a 65W TDP.

Several other processors sit in between clocked anywhere from 2.5GHz to 3.5GHz, all with at least 6MB of L3 cache. According to Overclockers.ru, Ivy Bridge will start to trickle out in April 2012.

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Too bad I can't read Russian... :beerhat: