AMD showcases 45 nm silicon!!!

[informal]

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By Wolfgang Gruener
Wednesday, May 09, 2007 15:15
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Monterey (CA) – At an event held in Monterey today, AMD showed a wafer with “fully functional” 45 nm silicon for the first time.

According to chief technology officer Phil Hester, the 300 mm wafer code-named “Typhoon”, shown in public for the first time today, holds 45 nm dies combining SRAM and logic. The executive said that AMD’s 45 nm process is on track and recent notes from Intel that AMD is facing yield issues “are rubbish” and “wishful thinking on their side”.

The 300 mm wafers with 45 nm structures are expected to ramp in production at the end of 2007. First 45 nm processors are expected to be commercially available by mid of 2008.[edited the original news due to obvious typo]
More details tome come.

Link:http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/31974/135/

It seems 45nm is good to go mid 2008

[breakfromyou]

wtf? wheres K10 already. this is pissing me off.

[XeRo]

wtf? wheres K10 already. this is pissing me off.

AMD is going to surprise us on May 14th and launch R600 with K10?

[[XC] hipno650]

It seems 45nm is good to go mid 2008 [/QUOTE]

but r600 was good to go last Christmas and k10 has been good to go for a while now.

come on amd lets get the k10 out before you worry about next gen stuff.

but i hope 45nm is on track as with intel putting on the heat they might need it sooner than 2008

[informal]

"Oh ye of little faith!"

[Shadowmage]

wtf? wheres K10 already. this is pissing me off.

You do know that development of chips and processes start many years in advance, right?

[nn_step]

completely unsurprising, Intel spreading fud about AMD... novel

[metro.cl]

i wonder were will AMD make this chips, couse AFAIK TMSC, Chartered, UMC dont have 45nm process ready to go

[XeRo]

i wonder were will AMD make this chips, couse AFAIK TMSC, Chartered, UMC dont have 45nm process ready to go

Most likely at Intel fabs.

[informal]

i wonder were will AMD make this chips, couse AFAIK TMSC, Chartered, UMC dont have 45nm process ready to go

Chartered will be the most likely candidate.First shipments will come from AMD in Q2 '08 probably(at the earliest)

Most likely at Intel fabs.

Mkay.Go away.

[nn_step]

Most likely at Intel fabs.

not even a snowflakes chance in hell

i wonder were will AMD make this chips, couse AFAIK TMSC, Chartered, UMC dont have 45nm process ready to go

Fab 36

[tam2]

First 45 nm processors are expected to be commercially available by mid of 2008

Here's an idea, straight to 45 nm, and skip K10
yep, that'll do

-tam2-

[xmax]

What usually takes 2-2½ years they're gonna do in 1½, thats certainly unprecedented in recent decades.

[Carfax]

Amd need to take advantage of the 45nm process as much as possible and tweak the K10 design to the max for it to remain competitive with Intel's Nehalem.

[dinos22]

WOW AMD showing off a wafer

[Qkjhfhaiguihfma]

i'm glad amd is keeping things interesting, first with k10 revisions scaling much higher to compete with penryn, and hopefully a 45nm refresh of k10 to compete with nehalem.

i'm excited for both companies .

[Anemone]

This isn't about faith. AMD needs to have these new competitive chips to sell. All this "we'll have 45nm too" and "we've got these working in the lab" aren't worth anything if you can't buy the stuff.

You think mid 2008? I'd bet that while you saw a working chip now, you'll be hitting the end of 2008 wondering what's taking them so long with 45nm. They had 65nm working chips 1.5 years before they started selling them too.

sheesh

[Omastar]

WOW AMD showing off a wafer

Almost as cool as when they demo'd Barcelona running Windows Task Manager.

[mstp2009]

Almost as cool as when they demo'd Barcelona running Windows Task Manager.

He he.

Yeah, that's a tough one to "live down".

[Emerica]

I really hope that AMD can get back in the game with 45nm tech. it would suck from them to go under and Intel to have no competition.

[dinos22]

stupid PR from both companies

[breakfromyou]

we've all been waiting for "barcelona" or K8L/K10/whatever for how long?!

Intel shows off 45nm, comes out with several new processors, AMD shows K10 running task manager, then this 45nm crap? who cares! i mean...that is great and all, but they need to show off Barcelona already. Somebody leak some ES benches or something. I have no patience left.

May 14th? you serious? no?

[perkam]

stupid PR from both companies

As much as I want k10 to launch and AMD to ramp to 45nm and become competitive again, Penryn isn't stupid PR.

Perkam

[Shintai]

So they finally reached what Intel did a year ago. Next step will be a prototype CPU I guess.

45nm In 2008? Then it gonna be like 65nm in 2006...

[ted3]

Intels first 45nm SRAM: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archi...060125comp.htm
January 25th, 2006. Thats almost 2 years from first SRAM till 45nm CPUs can be bought, i doubt AMD can do it much faster so im not going to be exited quite yet.