Is AMD Really a Sinking Ship?

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AMD Phenom won't hit 2.6GHz until 2008

Written by Lars-Göran Nilsson
Thursday, 08 November 2007 09:42

65nm production issues

According to Digitimes, AMD is having some problems hitting high clock speeds of the upcoming Phenom processors and although this isn't big news in itself, it seems like we won't see a 2.6GHz part until next year.

There will aparently only be two launch parts as well, the 2.2GHz 9500 and the 2.3GHz 9600, with the 2.4GHz 9700 arriving some time in December.

AMD need to step up and sort our these production issues as soon as possible, if the leaked benchmark figures we've seen is anything to go by, Intel doesn't exactly have a lot to worry about.

Hopefully AMD is just having some teething problem with its 65nm production process, but we really hoped to see more competitive parts from AMD at launch.

So far DigiTimes has proved to be one of the most un-reliable news sites (we all remember "native Yorkfield. So why to believe that this "news" is accurate?