They will not be launched in the third quarter but the fourth

Mar 9, 2013 09:37 GMT  ·  By

While the Haswell line of CPUs will debut near the end of the second quarter of 2013, the third-generation CPU architecture from Intel will continue to dominate the market, performance-wise.

This is because the Extreme processor line, with the -E suffix, is one generation behind the “standard” processor series, in this case fourth-generation.

Currently, the Sandy Bridge-E architecture rules the ultra-high-end market, since the Ivy Bridge-E hasn't been released yet.

This is actually what we are here to talk about today: the ETA for Ivy Bridge-E, or rather the modification to the ETA.

Ivy Bridge-E was supposed to make its appearance in the third quarter of the year.

Now, though, Fudzilla says the Core i7 Extreme Edition CPU series has been delayed to the fourth quarter.

Thus, the LGA 2011 platform with new CPUs and mainboards will only arrive at some point between October 1 and December 31.

Fudzilla says Intel wants to align the release of the new Core i7 Extreme and server-oriented Xeon, but this is just speculation. Intel's reasons have not actually been disclosed.

In any case, it looks like Sandy Bridge-EP will be able to strut around like a peacock for a few months longer, with its eight cores.

Speaking of which, 22nm-designed Ivy Bridge-E will raise the maximum core number from eight (or ten in the case of Xeon “Westmere-EX”) to twelve. In dual-socket servers, that brings the core count to 24.

For those who want to know the rest of the Ivy Bridge-E/EP specs, the chips will have 30 MB cache. The Ivy Bridge-E will be “limited” to 10 cores, while Ivy Bridge-EP will have all twelve running.

We can only imagine what will happen if someone decides to combine a server powered by such CPUs with NVIDIA's GeForce GRID cards. High-end games could easily be played over the Internet that way.