Information about the characteristics of 22 nm processors ivy bridge LGA 1155 and associated chipset seventh series gradually appear .
The graphic system of ivy bridge processors will support DirectX 11, but now to this information it is possible to add evidence of openGL 3.1, OpenCL 1.1 support and total hardware acceleration of decoding with the support of profile blu-ray 2.0. The video core of ivy bridge processors also will be able to use different filters with video image. It support three displays simultaneously. If the elder processors ivy bridge will have 16 actuating units of graphic core, then in low-end their quantity will remain equal to six, as in the case with sandy bridge processors. The cache in the third level will be divided between the graphic core and computational core.
The cache volume in the third level will reach 8 mb. but here the dual core processors ivy bridge will obtain to 4 mb cache in the third level. Their 32 nm predecessors had only 3 mb cache in the third level. In the work of the technology turbo boost special changes is not expected.
The mobile platform chief river, which uses 22 nm processors ivy bridge, will propose to users the support to the technology of wireless video transfer intel wireless display 3.0 and high-speed interface thunderbolt (Light peak). Last function is realized by discrete controller from intel production.
In 2012 the platform intel will obtain PCI express 3.0 and USB 3.0 support. As in case with the current generation of intel chipset, this circumstance will not prevent motherboards producers from realizing PCI support by additional controllers. Dual-channel memory will be able to work in the regimes to DDR 3-1600 inclusively with 1.5 v, and in the regimes to DDR 3-1333 inclusively with 1.35 v.
Finally, is confirmed the ability of ivy bridge processors to work in LGA 1155 motherboards on base of chipset intel sixth series, which are sold even now.