Thursday, March 31, 2011

PCI-Express 3.0 might be a surprise to Intel for 2012 Ivy Bridge

Ivy Bridge, the Intel microprocessor family that will succeed the Intel Core 2nd Gen. (or Sandy Bridge), will bring about an evolution toward the main manufacturing process of 22 nanometers, but could also have some surprises: PCI-Express 3.0. PCIe has become in recent years in connection standard graphics cards to the motherboard in the domestic sphere, ie on computers in our homes.

Currently dominates the PCI-E version 2.0. The main improvements involve the third generation would be a bandwidth of twice based on 16 links (16x), so that the GPU could communicate much faster with the other components of the computer. Obviously, besides the improvement provided by PCI-Express 3.0 also need to evolve both graphics cards and motherboards, especially its chipsets.

Ivy Bridge chipset will be the first to support PCI-E 3.0, and supposedly the motherboards for these new chips would also be the first to use their slots (we'll see if all or some of them.) With all this the launch of Ivy Bridge could bring enough news about: 22 nanometers, new motherboards and new chipsets, new socket (not yet confirmed this, but we all know Intel), PCI-Express 3.0 and the new cards graphs.

When? 2012, probably at CES 2012. In Tech News Buzz | Ivy bridge. Track | TechReport. Image | Flickr Jaroslaw Kulik.

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