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[chipdesigner]

No clock or power information were provided, but AMD *did* declare (from the podium, toward the very beginning of the presentation) that they had systems running 65nm samples on display.

They also claimed at some point that the samples were "production ready", and yet they did not announce any production wafer starts, and later said that the 65nm qualification process was continuing.

No claims at all were made concerning Rev G (65nm) K8 power & performance vs Rev F (90nm) K8.

The first 65nm parts (accoring to a roadmap DailyTech says was provided to OEMs in mid-May) will ship in December, and top out at 2.4GHz. Asked about this during the Q&A, Dirk Meyer said they were targeting the "mainstream DT" segment first with 65nm because that was where the volume was. (Not a very convincing argument, IMO.)

I think this all adds up to a large likelihood that not all is well with AMD's 65nm process at the moment.