Just some times back the third generation core i3 Ivy Bridge CPUs from Intel were a kind of mystery to the world but now some of the specs have got broken over the internet. And this leak has got the information that the Intel’s 2012 entry level processor range will be offering five chips, all of which will feature a dual core design along with the support for Hyper-Threading.

No support for Turbo Boost will be offered by all the 22nm Corei3 parts, pretty like what you find in the case of their Sandy Bridge counterparts. Quite similarly, there won’t be a support for the other Intel technologies like AES-NI, TXT, and VT-d.

It is again an important point to note that the integrated PCI Express controller of these CPUs won’t be supporting PCIe Gen 3.0 add on cards.

When you install such cards, you’ll find them to be working in PCI Express 2.0 mode cutting the available bandwidth to almost half.

Intel has planned to split the five Core i3 CPUs into two different ranges on the basis of their thermal envelope.

Out of these two available ranges, one will be including the Core i3-3420, i3-3225 and i3-3220 processors featuring a 55 Watt TDP and at the same time the second group will  be comprising of the Core-i3-3240T and i3-3220T  and both of them will be featuring 35 Watt TDPs.

The only bad news is that even when so much has got leaked, there’s simply no idea when any of these Core i3 processors will get released. However, you shouldn’t feel disappointed as the rumor has it that the first batch of Ivy Bridge CPUs from Intel is going to arrive on April 8, if not exactly on 8, sometimes around that.

This first batch of Ivy Bridge CPUs will include Core i7 and Core i5 desktop CPUs and if you are waiting for the lower end ones, it’ll be getting slightly late in releasing, perhaps in the month of May 2012.

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