Quote Originally Posted by Rammsteiner View Post
Can anyone do some thinking about the change to high/k and metal gates? Been thinking about this.

My question is, since AMD managed to improve their current production very well; can high/k and metal gates be applied into this without issues and a guaranteed improvement in both clocks and power consumption or did AMD basicly manage to improve their process so much that it's better, even only on certain area's, than high/k and metal gates? So that if they used high/k and metal gates that they actually lose on certain areas like power consumption, clocks or whatever? Or can high/k and metal gates be more seen as a 'turbo' and basicly improves with whatever process it's combined with?
My guess is, the latter option. Only problem is, I have not seen any new info on AMD's 45 nm. process node refresh for at least half a year. I'd say they are not going to do it on 45 nm. and just implement it on their future 32 nm. node.