A Sunday rumor may have limited and contextualized Intel’s reported delay of Ivy Bridge chips. According to VR-Zone, the company still intended to ship desktop and quad-core CPUs on time, and the June delays were mostly kept to dual-core mobile chipsets. Confirming an earlier tip, the new report explains it as a move to clear unsold stock of the existing Sandy Bridge processors, both for unsold PCs, mainly Windows-based, and for raw chips.
Some CPUs might be out in May, both in low-voltage and full-power versions, although the tip didn’t guarantee it. Firms waiting for mobile Core i3 chipsets for cheap notebooks and ultrabooks might be out in the cold till as late as August and September. The delay will hit even desktops, with quad Core i5 arriving in the summer and Core i3 likely coming later.
Neither Intel, nor its partners have directly corroborated any setbacks. Confirmed as true, however, a recent Samsung gaming notebook leak showed that notebook makers have been preparing quad-core Ivy Bridge CPUs. In the near term, no hints have been made at dual-core, though, and official released from Lenovo and others were scheduled more for mid-year.
The staggered launch would demonstrate the impact of such tablets as the iPad on lower-priced notebooks. On Apple and similar rivals, it could still have a ripple effect by pushing back the launches of 13-inch MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs and Mac minis as well as some iMacs.
I figured out when I heard about the delay that the first chips shipped would be the most expensive ones and that the low end chips would lag. Good guess on my part unless this is more FUD…
Meantime, would someone please leak some benchmarks for these guys so I can decide between high end Ivy Bridge or middle end SB-E chips? Plleeaaasee?
So they’re being released on April 8th as planned?
Pretty cool, now all we need is Sandy Bridge Xeon E -.-
That’s good news, another reason not to trust Digitimes.
Real disappointment I had a new build in April riding on these
I ll have to wait 4 months using a g620!
intel just taking their time now ….. this’s what happened when there’s no competition
Notebook vendors… does this only affect M chips?
Gives Trinity another chance
Damn it. I have enough for a decent Ivy Bridge notebook, now I can only wait. This is going to be a painful few months…
Yeah, I hope this won’t delay the sale of the retail/OEM sales of these processors. I can understand them wanting to give their partners more time for the public to digest pre-built machines with Sandy Bridge, but no reason to penalize those who don’t look at pre-built in the first place.
I’m disappointed, but it makes me feel better to hang onto my 2600K longer as I just bought it in October.
I’ll certainly be upgrading my computer once Ivy Bridge is released, so the faster this is released the happier I’ll be