What awaits Intel after it crosses the Ivy Bridge on its 2012 horizon? Why, it's Haswell, a processor microarchitecture that will also be built at 22nm, but will include a number of major changes for the company, some of which have now been revealed by a leaked set of slides. Chief among them will be the move to a single-chip solution (a so-called multi-chip package) on the more energy-conscious variants, which means that Intel will be offering mobile device manufacturers something very similar to the ARM-based systems-on-chip that they currently choose from. This more space- and power-efficient (15W TDP) platform for Haswell will apparently be limited to two cores, but will support LP-DDR3 in a dual-channel configuration. Moving to two...
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