Possible new stepping for Winchesters in January?

[texuspete00]

I know who I believe, and it starts with an M. I mean why the hell not, that's what it says when you look around a bit. Not to mention they have partnered and IBM has used both SOI and strained silicon before AMD. That said the egos are flying... at least we are straightening it out though. AMD has talented engineers too and I'm sure Big Blue isnt doing all this just to be nice, or even for just $280 million. As it is right now though, it seems reasonable for the AMD fans to be thankful of IBM. I for one am glad. WHen intel successfully shrunk to 130nm first, AMD was on the sidelines for awhile. Any time AMD seems to have the upper hand, it mostly seems to come from smart chip engineering, not fab technology and shrinks. Now with some help, you are hard pressed to find a review suggesting you buy a prescott over an A64.

Same thing with GF.... yes, if you look... the next chips are 65nm. Thats just the way it is. Not to put you down, but there is a lot of interesting things outside of 3dmark01. I think it has something to do with the engineering as well. Notice the chip makers usually settle on some common denominator. AMD/Intel/IBM then nV/ATi on 110nm. Cpu makers probably just skipped 110nm(like they did 150nm) because in my not so expert opinion, thats not really that much of a shrink. From 180 to 130 to 110? One thing seems certain GF, you can't just throw out why not 70 etc.