Intel's 3D 'Ivy Bridge' chips aim for Windows 8 dominance The threat of Arm moving into traditional Intel territory has loomed, following the announcement of a Windows 8 release built for Arm architecture, but Intel will hope to regain the initiative with its new chips. "The momentum around the system design is pretty astonishing," Kirk Skaugen, Intel's head of PC business, told the BBC. This is the world's first 22-nanometre product and we'll be delivering about 20 per cent more processor performance using 20 per cent less average power. The Ivy Bridge processors will also offer built-in support for USB 3.0, which allows quicker data transfers between computers and peripheral devices.