Intel is currently a drive to create a more power efficient version of its Ivy Bridge chip, new information reveals.
As per CNET in this report which cites an unnamed “industry source familiar with the chipmaker’s plans,” “Intel will cut power consumption ‘significantly’ for future versions” of Ivy Bridge.
Just how much is Intel looking to cut down on the power consumption of Ivy Bridge? A lot.
According to the publication, a 10-watt Ivy Bridge chip is “likely”. For …

Intel has provided the first details about the new Haswell processor family, based on the architecture which will be found in future generations of PCs and laptops, but also in Windows 8 or Android tablets.
The fourth generation of Intel Core uses the same 22 nm manufacturing process introduced with the Ivy Bridge processor family, but focuses on efficiency and mobility, not necessarily on performance.

Without giving too many details, David Perlmutter – general manager of the Intel …

After cutting the prices on offers for the 22 nm Ivy Bridge processors, Intel makes surprises us again, launching the first dual-core Ivy Bridge processors for desktop PCs, one with a price / performance ratio hard to refuse.
The new models are Intel Core i3-3240 ($ 138), Core i3-3225 ($ 134), Core i3-3220 ($ 117) and Pentium G2120, at the price of $86. These are added to the already launched quad-core processors – Intel Core i5-3350P and Core i5-3330, priced $177 and $ 182.

As for the …

Asus Zenbook U500VZ pushes the limits established of how big a laptop from ultrabook category could be, accommodating under the slim and lightweight body, which they have used so far on the Zenbook series, a 15-inch screen and a backlit chiclet keyboard, equipped with key number group.
Optionally, the new Asus Zenbook can also accommodate, in its 19. 7 mm thick case, a Nvidia GeForce 650m graphics card capable of running most games available for the the PC platform. The 15-inch Full HD display …

MacBook Air Receives Update To Ivy Bridge. (image via Apple)

Some time ago, Apple was asking Intel to make some special processors optimized for a thin and light ultra-portable laptop. When Intel saw the first MacBook Air, the company thought that not only Apple can produce such a laptop. Thus, the concept of ultrabook emerged, promoted by Intel among manufacturers of portable devices. The very first ultrabooks ran on the Sandy Bridge processor architecture. The next-generation Intel …

Ivy Bridge Codename Logo. (Image: Intel Free Press, via Flickr / CC)

Dell has announced the first servers to use the latest Ivy Bridge Xeon E3 processors from Intel.
The American chip maker and semicon behemoth released its single socket Ivy Bridge Xeon E3 processors one month after impressing industry watchers with its dual-core second-generation Sandy Bridge Xeon E5 processors.
It took Dell another 30 days to unveil the first servers to use Intel’s latest nearline server chip, the Dell …

Intel Ivy Bridge Processors Released. (Image: Intel Free Press, via Flickr / CC)

Intel has finally released its highly anticipated Ivy Bridge processors, the first semiconductor chips to use its 22nm tri-gate process node.
The world’s largest chip maker now promotes the Ivy Bridge as the ‘tock’ after its massively successful Sandy Bridge series that the company brought out 15 months ago. The new processors, steered by the flagship Core i7-3770K, use relatively smaller transistor but …