Odd, the roadmap has AMD moving from 65 to 45nm in their server and desktop chips by mid 09. They'll be moving their laptop line into 45nm in 2nd half 09.
They're a step behind but from all the hype around it seems like they have the possibility to get silicon to 3GHz+ it's just more or less they're dragging their feet with no actual reason behind it. As noted in the commentary, if it's 2.6 matching a 2.4 intel then it'd be a bad scenario to be turning out 3 - 3.2GHz chips not meeting the bar with Intel.
=/ It'd be nice to see these guys at each others throats, I think they're both starting to get focused on the mobile market a bit more with Atom, Fusion chips and so on.
"seems like they have the possibility to get silicon to 3GHz+ it's just more or less they're dragging their feet with no actual reason behind it."
That's not what I have read on Arstechnica et al. They say that the 65nm Phenom is tapped out at 2.6 because of power and heat. Doesn't look like even 2.8 is going to be out before 45nm "Shanghai", and 3.0+ is a pipe dream before then.
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LuvMuffin @ Jul 1st 2008 1:56AM
does it utilize the 45nm silicone technology?
LuvMuffin @ Jul 1st 2008 2:00AM
*silicon
chris fredette @ Jul 1st 2008 11:56AM
nope and that is their problem.
AMD can't afford to keep up manufacturing with Intel.
Kax02 @ Jul 4th 2008 1:15PM
@chris fredette
Odd, the roadmap has AMD moving from 65 to 45nm in their server and desktop chips by mid 09. They'll be moving their laptop line into 45nm in 2nd half 09.
They're a step behind but from all the hype around it seems like they have the possibility to get silicon to 3GHz+ it's just more or less they're dragging their feet with no actual reason behind it. As noted in the commentary, if it's 2.6 matching a 2.4 intel then it'd be a bad scenario to be turning out 3 - 3.2GHz chips not meeting the bar with Intel.
=/ It'd be nice to see these guys at each others throats, I think they're both starting to get focused on the mobile market a bit more with Atom, Fusion chips and so on.
loosely_coupled @ Jul 2nd 2008 1:53AM
kax02
"seems like they have the possibility to get silicon to 3GHz+ it's just more or less they're dragging their feet with no actual reason behind it."
That's not what I have read on Arstechnica et al. They say that the 65nm Phenom is tapped out at 2.6 because of power and heat. Doesn't look like even 2.8 is going to be out before 45nm "Shanghai", and 3.0+ is a pipe dream before then.