Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Intel's 'Ivy Bridge' Platform to Utilize 3-D Transistors
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Most important is what this move prevents...
Per socket power limitations had already prevented Intel from doubling the amount of cores each year (8-core and 16-cores should have been common by now.) Publicly, Intel had already announced an alternate strategy of adding 2 cores per generation instead of doubling. This technology move will allow at least one more doubling of the amount of cores, because they can run at half the power. So you could either get a laptop with 8-cores, or an integrated GPU that isn't so bad...
Per socket power limitations had already prevented Intel from doubling the amount of cores each year (8-core and 16-cores should have been common by now.) Publicly, Intel had already announced an alternate strategy of adding 2 cores per generation instead of doubling. This technology move will allow at least one more doubling of the amount of cores, because they can run at half the power. So you could either get a laptop with 8-cores, or an integrated GPU that isn't so bad...
Video lighting
What's interesting about the video is that in the closeup shots, the shadows on his face show the key lighting coming from his left side. For the distance shots, the shadow from the key light shows the light to be directly in front of him. I think the lighting director doesn't have a clue as to what he's doing.
Haha that video was awesome
What's interesting about the video is that in the closeup shots, the shadows on his face show the key lighting coming from his left side. For the distance shots, the shadow from the key light shows the light to be directly in front of him. I think the lighting director doesn't have a clue as to what he's doing.
Why does Intel announce a technique that we wont be able to buy for at least 7 month?
Would it not have been better for Intel to have Jobs introducing the new revolutionary Macbook pro with Intel "insert Apple hype word" when the chips are ready?
Intels only hope for survival is that they are 5 years ahead of competition in manufacturing.
Lets hope that GloFo and ARM have something up their sleeves.
Would it not have been better for Intel to have Jobs introducing the new revolutionary Macbook pro with Intel "insert Apple hype word" when the chips are ready?
Intels only hope for survival is that they are 5 years ahead of competition in manufacturing.
Lets hope that GloFo and ARM have something up their sleeves.
there is a rumor that intel is going to manufacture apple's next SoC and is trying to win a lot of Soc manufacturing business. i bet they are licensing this tech to others as long as they use intel to manufacture the chips
Being able to produce something at those scales is truly mind blowing.
Infinite largeness coexists with infinite smallness.
Infinite largeness coexists with infinite smallness.
Yet another good reason to not buy the current lineup of Macs (lack of USB3 standard that should appear in Ivy Bridge as well being the other one). Now if only Intel could utilize those 3D transistors to make their pitiful graphics adapters faster....
Late 2011 in Macs would be welcome. I wonder if this tech. will water down quickly into the processors for iPhones/iPads/etc. It's always amazing to me how they make faster equipment that uses less electricity. Soon, we will truly be able to power an AI personality with a potato while waiting to do a core transplant.
Anal exam?
Anal exam?
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8H7 Safari/6533.18.5)
My question is when will this make it into Mac Pros? I've been waiting to get a new Mac Pro for over a year now. Still on my PowerMac Dual 2 GHz G5. I will see a huge improvement if I upgrade now of course, but I want to really buy at the right time. 7+ years now for my machine and it's done me very well. I want a repeat of that.
So when do Mac Pros get this new 3D hotness? Aren't they still on Westmere? Will we see a Mac Pro upgrade soon to Sandy Bridge? Shall I get that or wait for Ivy Bridge?
My question is when will this make it into Mac Pros? I've been waiting to get a new Mac Pro for over a year now. Still on my PowerMac Dual 2 GHz G5. I will see a huge improvement if I upgrade now of course, but I want to really buy at the right time. 7+ years now for my machine and it's done me very well. I want a repeat of that.
So when do Mac Pros get this new 3D hotness? Aren't they still on Westmere? Will we see a Mac Pro upgrade soon to Sandy Bridge? Shall I get that or wait for Ivy Bridge?
Good luck on that redesigned body bit. We still have another three and a half more years before we will have had this body style as long as we had the previous. And really, no one, aside from a select minority on these forums, dislikes what we have now.
Settles it for me. I'm waiting for Ivy Bridge. Because you know, I want the latest technology, not because I can't afford a new computer for another 6 months...
Same here but you do realize that by the time this is out in a product there will be better stuff around the corner as always.
Any way i think i will buy some Intel stocks
this seems to be a important step in technology.
But if that won't happen, Intel may just announce the breakthrough 4D transistors in 2012, to be available in 2013. What then?