Intel's 'Ivy Bridge' Platform to Utilize 3-D Transistors

[oliversl]

so, Sandy Bridge is obsolete then

 

[dakwar]

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?

You're a funny man, Lesser Evets. A funny man. No there's more to life than anal exams.

 

[BC2009]

But if that won't happen, Intel may just announce the breakthrough 4D transistors in 2012, to be available in 2013. What then?

I'll have to cross that bridge when I come to it. Don't mess with my house of cards!

 

[mickman772]

Anyone notice the iBook in the video? A little weird they would put a pre-Intel mac in there...

 

[morespce54]

Honestly a new chipset every year is just way to much.

Well, you know, they have to find something new now that the GHz war is over...

 

[NintendoFan]

Hopefully this gets us Quad-cores for the 13" Pros.

 

[lvlarkkoenen]

Thus keeping Moores Law valid.

This is completely true. 37% does not in itself have me impressed.
Although it is impressive what those smart people at Intel come up with to follow the law.

 

[ten-oak-druid]

They snuck some of these 3D transistors into the white iphone. That's why it is thicker!

How long until memristors make their way into electronics?

 

[bigwig]

Here comes the wrath of questions...Should I wait on Ivy Bridge before purchasing an MBP/iMac

Personally, I'm waiting for Haswell. I like architectural changes as purchase points more than process shrinks.

I'm not so sure this announcement confirms the rumors of Intel producing some of Apple's ARM needs. An ARM using the 22-nm 3D process would smoke the Atom in both performance and (low) power usage, I doubt Intel would voluntarily show up its own product like that.

 

[chrmjenkins]

They snuck some of these 3D transistors into the white iphone. That's why it is thicker!

How long until memristors make their way into electronics?

They already are. You just can't buy them yet.

 

[Mustafa Monde]

Shrink ray must have been running Windows.

 

[Ravich]

What does this mean as far as maximum potential goes? Are we going to see roughly the same increase in performance but at much lower energy usage?

 

[S-mac-k]

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Here comes the wrath of questions...Should I wait on Ivy Bridge before purchasing an MBP/iMac

Personally, I'm waiting for Haswell. I like architectural changes as purchase points more than process shrinks.

I'm not so sure this announcement confirms the rumors of Intel producing some of Apple's ARM needs. An ARM using the 22-nm 3D process would smoke the Atom in both performance and (low) power usage, I doubt Intel would voluntarily show up its own product like that.

What about Broadwell? Then sleepwell? Eatwell? Passwindwell? can'tgetbetterthanthiswell?

Technology, altho a necessity, is a complete pain in the a$$!

 

[blackburn]

Well I think I will wait for the thing that comes next to Ivy Bridge Maybe then macbooks won't have optical drives
Anyway happy I skipped sandy bridge

 

[LarryC]

I'll have to cross that bridge when I come to it. Don't mess with my house of cards!

Would that be a Sandy Bridge or an Ivy Bridge?

 

[shartypants]

Awesome, pretty clever. So when do we get to see these chips in our laptops?

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

But if that won't happen, Intel may just announce the breakthrough 4D transistors in 2012, to be available in 2013. What then?

4D transistors? Would that extra "dimension" be a time dimension (just imagine processing that worked back through time so you could have it processed before you were even born! ) or would it be a 4th spatial dimension (ala multi-dimensional string theory, in which case the extra transistors would be outside our own perceived existence and in another dimension and thus invisible to us. Hey that could be a good marketing tool for something that doesn't really exist, except that you would be able to measure work done across that dimension while showing virtually no usage in our current x,y,z dimension. )

I think what you really meant, though was more than 3-state transistors inside the existing 3-dimensions (i.e. the human brain can have more than 10,000 (average) connections per axon compared to a conventional transistor having only 3 connections and two states. The new transistors have three states and (4?) connections).

 

[blow45]

the problem is not in not havind 3d, it's in all that legaly x86 that intel (see itanium) are tied to...

 

[caspersoong]

Awesome. Wonder whether the Mac Mini will get even more Mini with this.

 

[evil89]

As usually, Ray Kurzweil was right..

 

[AppleScruff1]

This is Amazing!!!!

This is the beginning of a new age of computing technology!!!!

It's not a new age until Uncle Steve says it is.

 

[Steve121178]

Will this make into the MBP's by Summer 2012? Because that's when I plan on buying a new one.

Yes.

 

[Steve121178]

Honestly a new chipset every year is just way to much.

What is wrong with progress? Why the negativity?

 

[42streetsdown]

Will they still be accompanied by crappy integrated graphics?

Yes, they probably will have integrated graphics

 

[42streetsdown]

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.

It's not about dislike what we have now. The current design is beautiful. It's about wanting more. like a greedy child lol. I'm just curious as to what apple comes up with next