Hardware Secrets take a look at the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture, which will be used by in the third-generation Core i3, i5, and i7 CPUs, to be released in 2012.

The Ivy Bridge microarchitecture will be used in the third-generation Core i3, i5, and i7 CPUs, to be released in 2012. It brings minor modifications to the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture used in the second-generation Core i processors, but with a completely new graphics engine, a PCI Express 3.0 controller, and a new manufacturing process. Let's see what is new.

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