Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipdesigner]

AMD and IBM have stated publicly that this technology allows for a 40% faster switching transistor than from a standard 65 nm design without all the three letter acronyms (TLA’s). In a complex design like a CPU this could mean a theoretical 50% overall clockspeed increase going from AMD’s 90 nm process to AMD/IBM’s 65 nm process all the while staying within the same power envelope.

The author doesn't know what he's talking about.

DSL was a 24% boost over nothing. 1.4 / 1.24 = 12.9% faster 90nm SiGe transistor switching speed than the current non-SiGe transistor. That will likely provide a product speed boost of a somwhat smaller amount.

AMD will include an extra complex decoder as well as an out of order load/store buffer and out of order read/write buffer.

That was a laughable assertion, already debunked.

It will feature a higher IPC and be able to clock higher than the current Rev. F’s

No, it is a dumb shrink (same IPC), and the initial parts will clock slower than the 90nm parts.