About a month or so back I reported that the Ivy Bridge Core i3 chips from Intel were releasing in about ten days. Ten days later, nothing happened. Ten more days later, there was less happening than the ten days before that. It now looks like the company was waiting on AMD’s pricing structure before saying anything. I’ve already confirmed that several local suppliers will be getting stock of these chips within the next two days.

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Intel has confirmed for a while that their new Ivy Bridge refresh will reach all spheres of their chip family, right down to the lowly Celeron range, currently enjoying huge sales thanks to the superior Sandy Bridge architecture. Its entirely possible to build a decent gaming rig for R4000 these days that will run nearly all games on their max settings at 1080p resolution. But now things are going to heat up with Ivy Bridge Core i3 chips heading your way.

And they’re ten days off. Want to know details? Hit the jump for Intel’s latest AMD killers. 

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