Intel is going to notebookfabrikanten allegedly longer time to inventories of models with Sandy Bridge processors. The chip maker would be the release of the successor, Ivy Bridge, up to march 2012 have been postponed.
Traditionally, brings Intel to the end of the year a new generation of processors, with an official launch in January. At the end of this year going Ivy Bridge as the successor to Sandy Bridge, in mass production, but according to Digitimes say notebookfabrikanten that the official introduction word postponed from January to march 2012.
Intel would be the manufacturers this extra time would give to switch over to the new platform and their inventories. It seems unlikely that Intel is actually are tight tick-tock schedule is going to be different, but that notebookfabrikanten like to respite want, is plausible.
The manufacturers would start this year with a two-month dip in demand experienced as a result of the bug in 6-series chipset Sandy Bridge was. Moreover, many consumers the purchase of a new notebook to focus on tablets, leaving manufacturers with significant inventories down.