22nm Ivy Bridge Physical Exposed Bulldozer

AMD's bulldozers are still veiled. Intel's next-generation 22nm Ivy Bridge is already gearing up. There are even physical pictures of new processors on the Internet.

There are two Ivy Bridge processor engineering samples for the first exposure, which are dual-core and quad-core, respectively. The surface is etched with QAX5 and QAX2 words respectively.

Both have a clock speed of only 1.8GHz, a minimum multiplier of 13x, and a maximum of 18x (that is, a reference frequency of 100MHz). The three-level caches are 4MB and 8MB, respectively. They do not support Turbo Boost dynamic acceleration, nor do they have integrated graphics cores. Supports up to DDR3-1600 and core voltage range is 0.8-1.25V.

According to the roadmap, the 22nm Ivy Bridge will be officially released during the March-April 2012 period.