The new chief of manufacturing at Advanced Micro Devices said the company has already made first test chips using 45nm process technology, however, he said the new fabrication process still does not employ high-k dielectrics and similar innovations that IBM and AMD developed collaboratively. The new technologies, however, may still be a focus for AMD, the new production chief joined AMD from IBM.
Douglas Grose, who has been appointed to the role of senior vice president of technology development, manufacturing and supply chain at AMD, said that AMD’s Dresden, Germany manufacturing facility has been producing test chips using 45nm for some time now and the company has a very strong focus on rapid development of the new fabrication technology.Mr. Grose indicated that the 65nm process technology – which went commercial in early December, 2006 – is already fully developed and ready to ramp up. The main target for AMD today is 45nm fabrication process.
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Douglas Grose, who has been appointed to the role of senior vice president of technology development, manufacturing and supply chain at AMD, said that AMD’s Dresden, Germany manufacturing facility has been producing test chips using 45nm for some time now and the company has a very strong focus on rapid development of the new fabrication technology.Mr. Grose indicated that the 65nm process technology – which went commercial in early December, 2006 – is already fully developed and ready to ramp up. The main target for AMD today is 45nm fabrication process.
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Intel forces AMD to innovate and conversely,
AMD forces Intel to innovate.
competition is good
Core 2 Duo? AKA the chip thats making AMD cut prices like crazy
x86 architecture?
The new Core processors definitely show that they have been listening to users...
:yawn:
Wake me up when they're offering something that can beat the Conroe.
I think 65nm is next gen and right now Core 2 Duo is 80nm or something, but it definitley isnt 45nm, its hard to keep track soemtimes lol
I think 65nm is next gen and right now Core 2 Duo is 80nm or something, but it definitley isnt 45nm, its hard to keep track soemtimes lol
The Core 2 Duo and the Core 2 Quad are both 65nm. But they are in production already, whereas this AMD 45nm technology is a long way from production.
That is definitely more accurate. Intel's new 45nm fab (Fab32) is slated to be ramping up to HVM by that timeframe mentioned. That's not to say that Penryn will not be released earlier than that from the Oregon development fabs however.
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