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    News - Dual-core Intel Ivy Bridge processors officially announced

    14 i5s and i7s in total, with new i3s, Pentiums and Celerons to arrive later.
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    Re: News - Dual-core Intel Ivy Bridge processors officially announced

    So if I'm reading this correctly we have i7 and i5 that are dual core (with hyperthreading). I thought i5/i7 use to guaranty a quad core - Am I wrong in this or has this changed with ivy bridge?
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    Re: News - Dual-core Intel Ivy Bridge processors officially announced

    Mobile i5 and i7 have been dual core certainly since Sandy Bridge, and the desktop i5 6xx series (Clarkdale, iirc?) were dual core.

    The quad core SNB moble parts have QM at the end of the model number rather than just M. I assume IB will do the same...

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    Re: News - Dual-core Intel Ivy Bridge processors officially announced

    lets confuse the **** out of everyone - now you need to look at the model letter to tell what the chip actually is - `M` and `U` are dual core for mobile and ` T` are dual core for desktop

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    yes jim your right - i3-5xx , i5 6xx (and a couple of others) were all dual core on 1156

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    Re: News - Dual-core Intel Ivy Bridge processors officially announced

    Is it me or has processor speed seems to have stalled? At one point it seemed a new speed every other month now most seem to have topped out at around the 3-3.4Ghz mark?
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    Re: News - Dual-core Intel Ivy Bridge processors officially announced

    Quote Originally Posted by Jonj1611 View Post
    Is it me or has processor speed seems to have stalled? At one point it seemed a new speed every other month now most seem to have topped out at around the 3-3.4Ghz mark?
    Now the focus is on lower TDP, apparently.

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    Re: News - Dual-core Intel Ivy Bridge processors officially announced

    I would have thought we've reached a stage where lower tdp or more performance per watt is what is being aimed at...
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    Re: News - Dual-core Intel Ivy Bridge processors officially announced

    Cheers for the explanation scaryjim and halloweenjack. I guess it makes sense on the mobile - I just wish it wasn't so confusing. It also annoying to see that i5-3470T is a desktop i5 with dual core so I guess I can't even assume desktop i5 = quad core anymore...
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    Re: News - Dual-core Intel Ivy Bridge processors officially announced

    Quote Originally Posted by Jonj1611 View Post
    Is it me or has processor speed seems to have stalled? At one point it seemed a new speed every other month now most seem to have topped out at around the 3-3.4Ghz mark?
    we're not in the ghz race any more, more processing power per clock cycle, means you get more processing power at the speed, and they also manage to decrease electrical consumption. Whats the problem?

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    Re: News - Dual-core Intel Ivy Bridge processors officially announced

    Who said there was a problem.

    As I said I was enquiring that it seems that processor speeds have topped out at 3.4Ghz where not so long ago there seemed to be new processor speeds week in/week out.
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    Re: News - Dual-core Intel Ivy Bridge processors officially announced

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    Mobile i5 and i7 have been dual core certainly since Sandy Bridge, and the desktop i5 6xx series (Clarkdale, iirc?) were dual core.

    The quad core SNB moble parts have QM at the end of the model number rather than just M. I assume IB will do the same...
    I'm sure you're leaving out all the mobile i7 quad core CPUs for some reason. A few Sandy Bridge examples are i7 26xxQM, 27xxQM and 28xxQM, not even going over the 29xxXM models.

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