Are you kidding? How many times has intel reused a socket? They have had several with the same pin count, but incompatible. I would be extremely surprised if such an upgrade path was created by intel. That would take away their chipset sales.
I think it might be both http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge but still requiring a new motherboard.
That's a good shout. I thought that was reserved for the super high end but it might be all of them. 775 went for ages.
Says IB will be backward compatible with SB. Ahhh super. Thanks very much. Nice to know that the next upgrade can be CPU only unless you're going E.
ivy bridge is the tick of intels tick - tock crap thingy, both are 1155 and both use the same mobo's but id suspect current boards would need a bios update to use them and id imagine there will be new mobo's as-well, new chipset as-well maybe? ivy bridge is just the refinement/perfection of sandybridge 1155 cpus
Ivy Bridge is 1155, but the new motherboards will presumably bring a new chipset with some extra features - one of which is PCI-E 3.0. Ivy Bridge E/Sandy Bridge E is socket 2011.
Ivy bridge is lga 1155, they should drop into sandy bridge boards with a bios update, but there will also be a new chipset, 'panther point'. ivy bridge will be a die shrink 22nm and 3d transistors. ivy bridge is still intel's middle of the range platform, while Sandy Bridge E is socket Lga 2011 http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/22351-panther-point-ivy-bridge-chipset-detailed
For all intensive purposes, compatibility was split into p4/65nm c2d/45nm . Some mobos got tweaked BIOSs to get some of the early core2 chipsets (9xx series) to work with 45nm chips, but active cooling on the northbridge was a must at or over 1333mhz FSB (doubly so if you have a tower cooler that dosn't blow air onto the chipset). That being said, s775 came out 7 years ago and apparently (check out the gigabye factory tour article) is still being manufactured
Is that a fancy way of saying "first we'll do a thing, then we'll do like.... another thing like that thing, then we'll go onto something a bit different"?
1155 will be a "3 year socket". I learnt that before I joined ASUS so I can share it Roadmaps can and often do change though.
pretty much, TOCK is the new architecture whilst tick is the refinement of said archictecture i.e.new architecture- TOCK -sandybridge - die shrink- TICK-ivy bridge
