14 DAY TRIAL // Though Intel is mostly focused on the Sandy Bridge series of processors right now, it is, of course, working, more or less, on the even more advanced line of Ivy bridge chips, and it seems that availability is set for early 2012.
The Sandy Bridge will be Intel's newest collection of consumer-oriented central processing units with Integrated graphics circuits.
The Ivy Bridge, on the other hand, will be their so-called successors and should come out about one year later.
What is known about the so-called Ivy Bridge is not exactly much, but it was revealed that the manufacturing process planned is the 22nm.
Said node will be much more power-efficient and powerful than the one used by Sandy Bridge.
Sandy Bridge are built on the 32nm monolithic core and has already started shipping to suppliers, although the official introduction won't occur until January 5, 2011.
Now, a report suggests that something fairly similar will happen to the Ivy bridge 22nm series, as in they will start shipping in Q4 2011 but only be released in Q1, 2012.
One might say that it may be a better idea to release the Ivy bridge earlier, before the end of 2011, but that would lead to an inventory pile-up of Sandy Bridge.
Since said Sandy Bridge would be unlikely to sell very well after the appearance of their successors, the Santa Clara, California-based outfit is probably meaning to have the holiday season help out in this regard.
Granted, nothing is actually confirmed as of yet, but signs do seem to point towards CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2012 as the time when Intel Ivy Bridge will be formally announced.
The aforementioned report also says that Intel might be trying to 'reinvent the market' and make people wait until January to buy new desktops and laptops powered by its new chips.