14 DAY TRIAL // The recent rumors saying that Intel was going to delay Ivy Bridge CPUs until June appear to have been nothing to worry about, according to what Intel told us.
Yesterday, murmurs cropped up on the Internet saying that the Santa Clara, California-based CPU maker was going to delay the release of Ivy Bridge central processing units until June this year, 2012.
The motive given for this alleged change in plans was the high level of inventories of laptops powered by Sandy Bridge CPUs.
We decided to contact Intel about this and ask them if there was any possibility for this rumor to have any substance to it.
We also asked them if there might be any CPU manufacturing problems or anything else besides the SB laptop oversupply.
As we had expected, the company stuck to its policy of not commenting in any way on specific ramp rates and customer communications.
On the bright side, they did more or less clearly state that everything was still going to happen in spring, as originally planned.
“We don’t comment on rumors or speculation, nor do we comment on specific ramp rates and customer communications. We remain on track for our spring 2012 launch, in line with previous guidance,” the company said.
The specifications of the Ivy Bridge chips, or some of them, have not exactly managed to stay secret, not with the launch so close.
The data on Core i3 units was exposed not long ago, including the lack of PCI Express 3.0 support. Moreover, a premature posting of a Samsung laptop revealed the Core i7-3610, as well as an NVIDIA Kepler-based discrete GPU for good measure.
Now that we can again be reasonably sure that Intel's 22nm chips are coming out as planned, we assume these products will become official and available at some point in April, alongside motherboards like Biostar's TZ77XE4, which are said to be mass-producing as we speak.