BBC Breaking NDA?

[Platinum]

Ivy Bridge launched according to them, I thought the NDA was on until 6pm?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17785464

[scaryjim]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Intel sent out a press release today and forgot to put a time on the embargo Or they put "Embargoed until 10.00am 23rd April 2012" without using a time zone.

I strongly doubt that the BBC had the kind of privileged access to technical information / early silicon that would have required them to sign an NDA, tbh. There's nothing in that report beyond the release date (and number of SKUs) that wasn't already public knowledge - basically that it's called Ivy Bridge and uses 3D tri-gate transistors. Could be a break of embargo, but almost certainly not a break of NDA.

[DR]

The entire launch has been a farce - we've had samples for literally months....

.... it's not a great way of them doing things.

[kalniel]

Entire previews have been done on samples before as well, eg: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5626/i...-core-i7-3770k

[DR]

Entire previews have been done on samples before as well, eg: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5626/i...-core-i7-3770k

Yep....

[Platinum]

Yea would be interested to find out if they really did have process problems or if they did just hold it back to clear stock of Sandy Bridge.
Ill be buying the 3770k when its release anyhow.

[Platinum]

The entire launch has been a farce - we've had samples for literally months....

.... it's not a great way of them doing things.

Bet your finger has been on that "make review public" button for just as long then lol

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Out of interest when Hexus put up their review,I assume you will be putting up a CPU-Z screenshot like you did with the Core i7 2600K review??

Supposedly,there is a significant change between the E0 engineering and E1 production steppings as the GPU section is now much larger.

Edit!!

BTW,Legit Reviews put up their Core i7-3770K review up early and they need 1.52V to hit 4.9GHZ??!! However,they soon pulled it!!

[Biscuit]

Out of interest when Hexus put up their review,I assume you will be putting up a CPU-Z screenshot like you did with the Core i7 2600K review??

Supposedly,there is a significant change between the E0 engineering and E1 production steppings as the GPU section is now much larger.

Edit!!

BTW,Legit Reviews put up their Core i7-3770K review up early and they need 1.52V to hit 4.9GHZ??!! However,they soon pulled it!!

Surely thats a pretty damaging level of volts to be running constantly?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Surely thats a pretty damaging level of volts to be running constantly?

I just checked again - it was 4.9GHZ,so I suspect that current Ivy Bridge Core i7 samples when overclocked to their maximum will be similar in performance to Sandy Bridge Core i7 samples when overclocked to their maximum. I expect that Ivy Bridge probably will consume a bit less power,but at those voltages the CPU section is going to run hot IMHO.

Perhaps,lower overclocks which need lower voltage will be more in the favour of Ivy Bridge.

However the E1 production samples have a much large IGP now:

http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2...es_Sandys.html

The die picture is of a Core i5 3550.

[shaithis]

Yea would be interested to find out if they really did have process problems or if they did just hold it back to clear stock of Sandy Bridge.

Low PC sales and continued recession = lots of chips still kicking around

Bulldozer not living up to a lot of peoples hopes

I doubt they have problems, they just saw an opportunity to clear the stock without losing market share......or at least it completely stinks of it.......

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Luckily,I don't care if IB needs better cooling when overclocked. One of the 69W Xeon E3-1230 V2 CPUs will be eventually a nice replacement for my 65W Core i3 2100!!