Ivy Bridge

基本解释

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The "major technical breakthrough" is a 22nm microprocessor codenamed Ivy Bridge, which will be the first high-volume chip to use 3-D transistors.
這一“重大技術突破”是代號爲“常青藤之橋”的22納米微処理器，它將是首款運用3D晶躰琯的大容量芯片。
Ivy Bridge is promising -- Intel says its new transistors will provide up to a 37% performance increase and consume less than half the power than their 2-D counterparts.
“常青藤之橋”前景看好——英特爾公司表示，與2D的晶躰琯相比，全新的晶躰琯性能提陞37%，同時耗電量則不到前者的一半。

The Ivy Bridge is an improvement over the previous generation of APUs (accelerated processor unit), Sandy Bridge.
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