The news from notebook graphics card makers confirmed that Intel's next-generation processor Ivy Bridge will be postponed until March 2012, but the reason is only for a better transition between the old and new platforms, and has nothing to do with competitors.

Ivy Bridge was originally planned for volume production in November this year, using the new 22nm 3-D Tri-Gate tri-gate manufacturing process, and was officially released in January 2012, continuing the Tick-Tock strategy for many years, but now the release time has been Postponed to March next year, but the more specific time has not yet been set, do not rule out the possibility of dragging until April.

Sources pointed out that the delay of the Ivy Bridge platform will allow manufacturers more time to sell notebooks based on the Sandy Bridge platform.

Due to major flaws in the design of the 6-series chipset with the Sandy Bridge processor, Intel began a global recall from the Lunar New Year and relaunched the revised B3 stepping version in April. In addition to billions of dollars in economic losses, this move has also led laptop manufacturers to fall into disarray for more than two months. Coupled with the strong impact of tablet, Sandy Bridge platform notebook is difficult to hand over the market before the end of this year. As a result, Intel will have to slow down the next generation of Ivy Bridge and postpone its release time.