Ivy bridge processor is the successor of Sandy Bridge processor from Intel. Ivy bridge processor is expected to be released in September, 2012. It is developed under the "Core" brand. Ivy bridge architecture will be used in Core i3,i5 and i7 processors.
Ivy bridge architecture is designed to work in 22nm whereas Sandy Bridge works in 32nm. So far all the processors worked with planar (2D) transistors whereas Ivy bridge uses tri-gate (3D) transistors. As a result, the speed of processing will be more with less power consumption.
The speed of the processor is from 2.5 to 4.2 GHz (upto 3.9 GHz can be used for workstations and above 4 GHz speed can be used in servers). Ivy Bridge is designed with tertiary cache memory (L3). The size of cache is from 3 MB to 8 MB which will boosts the speed of execution.
Ivy bridge supports USB 3.0. Ivy bridge allows backward compatibility. So that, the motherboard of Sandy bridge processor can be used to Ivy bridge processor.
Features
- Less power consumption
- High Performance
- PCI-E support
- Support HD 4000 graphics
- Support for DDR3 RAM
- Supports USB 3.0
Ivy bridge architecture is used for mobile processors too. Ivy bridge is the predecessor for "Haswell" architecture.
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