It was revealed a few months back through a leaked roadmap that the latest Intel Ivy Bridge-E processors would launch in Q3 2013. While we had the launch date covered, no concrete information was available on the CPU details until now.

Intel Ivy Bridge-E - 2013's HEDT Processor

CPUWorld got some information about the features Intel's new HEDT processors would support. Intel's Ivy Bridge-E would be codenamed as theIvy Bridge-E i7-4900 series CPU’s and would be showcased at Computex 2013. The Ivy Bridge-E Processors would be based on the 22nm technology with four to six core models ranging in clock frequencies. Taking in account, 10-12 cores on the Ivy Bridge-EP models this is a bit unimpressive at first but some enhancements would be carried over from those to Ivy Bridge-E processors.

Ivy Bridge-E Processors would support 15 MB L3 cache on the top model which is the same as Sandy Bridge-E. Both Hexa-Core and Quad Core parts would have a 130W TDP with technologies such asHyper-Threading,

Turbo Core,VT-x and VT-d virtualization available at users hand. The new instruction set would includeSSE4, AES , AVX, Float 16.

The Ivy Bridge-E Processors would have a Quad Channel memory controller and can support 8 GB ofDDR3-1066/1333/1600/1866 per DIMM slot. PCI-e 3.0 would also be supported by the new processors churning out 40 lanes and four lanes for PCI-e 2.0. All Ivy Bridge processors would stay loyal to the LGA 2011 socket (X79 Chipset) motherboards. Possible SKU codenames are mentioned below:

Core i7-4930Core i7-4960Core i7-4970Core i7-4990

Once again, the launch would be carried out in third quarter of 2013 whereas these would be showcased early in Computex 2012.