Intel Delays Only Some Dual-Core Ivy Bridge CPUs

The fuss stirred by the recent rumors going around about Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs can go ahead and settle down at last, or so a new report suggests. 

It has been stated that Intel is, in fact, delaying some Ivy Bridge central processing units, but not the most relevant ones. 

Last week, a rumor arose, saying that Intel had decided to delay the Ivy Bridge series of 22nm CPUs until June 2012. 

Upon our inquiry into the matter, Intel denied having changed the product plans it had in place. 

Now, VR-Zone has practically corroborated the response we got, though it also added that, while most of the chips were still on the same track, the dual-core laptop units were an exception. 

More precisely, due to the large supply of Sandy Bridge central processors, the Santa Clara, California-based company is putting off the release of dual-core mobile units. 

That means that all the desktop components will be up for sale as planned, and the same goes for most of the notebook platforms. 

Nevertheless, both standard voltage and ULV (ultra-low voltage) dual-cores are subject to the delay, while the Core i3 chips have been pushed back even further, all the way to August or September instead of May/June. 

The supply of Sandy Bridge CPUs is said to be so high that not only are vendors overstocked, but also even Intel's own warehouses still have shipments that, had sales been better, would have been sent out quite a while ago. 

For those that know about the different sorts of notebooks out there, this all means that strong consumer and business PCs will be updated soon enough, but ultrabooks won't be so lucky. 

This puts a damper on the hopes that the new, super-thin machines would drop in price. While they will, eventually, become cheaper, this will happen at a slow enough rate that only in 2013 will they be considered affordable.

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