Intel: Dual-core Ivy Bridge processors will arrive only mid-year

If you are waiting for a new MacBook Air, you can wait while sitting. During the presentation of the company's last financial results, it had a turnover of US $ 12.9 billion, with profits of US $ 2.7 billion (or US $ 0.53 per year diluted), the company's CEO, Paul Otellini, confirmed the news that the new processors dual-core will arrive only in the middle of the year.

The first versions of the Ivy Bridge that are just coming quad-core. “The second product launch will be dual-core, which I mainly equip notebooks.

MacBooks Air with Ivy Bridge

As we said, the first chips from the new family will hit the market next Monday, April 23rd. Such processors will be able to equip iMacs and MacBooks Pro probably the Mac lines which will be updated in the first semester. However, an update to the Air line will only be possible from June, when machine-specific chips with these features will land.

We recently commented that the Ivy Bridge line has support for possible Retinas screens, and that they also bring beautiful gains in graphic performance.

(via CNET News)