Ivy Bridge CPUs from Intel are going to get released by March 2012, as per an inside information from the motherboard manufacturer. And it is expected to be offering dual core and quad core parts along with multiple new chipsets in the initial product itself.

The TDP ratings for the latest 22nm dual core CPUs are found to be 35W and 55W where as the ratings for quad core pieces are found to be 45W, 65W and 77W by a noted electronics media. The new chipsets that are going to replace Z68 and P67 offerings are Z77 and Z75. The present H67 based boards will be replaced by H77 chipset and the business models will get Q77, Q75, and B75 chipsets which will be replacing Q67, Q65 and B65 based products.

From the processing side, the performance is expected to be improved up to 20% with Ivy Bridge compared to Sandy Bridge CPUs. The graphics performance is also expected to be improved to about 30 to 60 percent with the DirectX 11 and OpenCL 1.1 support of the worked out internal GPU.

The 22nm chip offers a support for 4K video resolution which will make your GPU along with the supporting monitor to run a video stream at about 4096 X 4096 pixels also known as 4K x 4K, a special feature that works pretty well because of the Multi Format Codec Engine or MFX offered by Ivy Bridge as claimed by Intel.

Paul Otellini, the CEO of Intel stated in a conference call held in the earlier part of this week that they had already started up working on Ivy Bridge and the chip was being improved for Q4 their special qualification for sale. This makes it likely that the company will be sending its samples for final testing to OEMs before taking to its public launch.

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