The microarchitectural changes should be so drastic, that they now refer to them as “Tick+”. The new Ivy Bridge processors won’t be just a copy of the old Sandy Bridge manufactured with 22 nm process.
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However, this strategy seems to start failing. The idea behind it is that they first develop new processor microarchitecture, and then transfer it to new production process, and after than another new microarchitecture comes out. Their current new models launch strategy is described as “Tick-Tock”. It looks like Intel is simply unable to maintain the pace, which they set for themselves.
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The Intel X79 Express chipset also turned out more or a disappointment, because despite initial plans it wasn’t any richer in functionality than the LGA 1155 chipsets. However, we did expect much more from the new architecture that has already proven worthy in the LGA 1155 processors and from the quad-channel memory controller than 10% speed increase, which is noticeably smoothed over by a significant increase in power consumption. But who could have thought that the launch would turn out so unremarkable and the new processors will be ironically nicknamed “Bulldozer 2”? Of course, we didn’t see any nonsense like pseudo-eight-core processors being slower than their true six-core predecessors and the new processors did prove to be faster than the older LGA 1366. The new Sandy Bridge-E were expected to raise the performance bar to unattainable heights. Even the ancient LGA 1366 CPUs are still among the leaders in applications creating heavy-duty well-paralleled load. We hope that the company remembers all that and will not make the same mistakes their competitor made back then.Ĭloser to the end of the year Intel was planning to triumph their new LGA 2011 processors. Back in those days AMD processors were at least just as good, and in many aspects even better than Intel’s. The first processors on Willamette core were also slower than their predecessors, after that they came out with a much more successful Northwood core, and things seemed to be very promising, but they ended up with a flame-breathing Prescott, and at that point decided to give up NetBurst microarchitecture altogether. What comes to mind in reference to Bulldozer is the very old launch of the Intel Pentium IV processors, when they were hoping to fix things by raising the clock speeds. The new microarchitecture is designed to allow frequency increase, so more competitive models might be coming out in the future, but the overall associations are not the best ones at this point. The disappointment was quite predictable and therefore not very dramatic, but it is still sad that Bulldozer processors ended up being so hot and slow.
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It was pretty clear from numerous delays and information leaks that we shouldn’t expect these processors to knock our socks off, but we still hoped for the best. It is quite possible that the next LGA 1155 processor generation known as Ivy Bridge has been postponed for an entire quarter and is due to be announced in the coming spring and not January as usual.Īfter that we were impatiently waiting for the AMD Bulldozer scheduled to be launched in summer, but AMD kept delaying them over and over and they arrived only in mid fall. As a result, we had to wait for the new fixed chipset modifications until spring, which had significantly slowed down the spreading of the promising processors.
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The actual Sandy Bridge CPU, in fact, turned out pretty good, but the chipsets for them contained a very frustrating bug. Everything started back in January when Intel launched their LGA 1155 processors. It looks like the year 2011 may be known as the year of unsuccessful processor launches.