Intel Corp (INTC)

[kpf]

AMD had nearly 1.5 years to resolve the "design issues" you mention.

Actually, no. They had a 300mm transition to make, i.e to qualify a completely new toolset for a new node. Only after the very last tools was qualified they could process a design migrated to 65nm rules. When they had silicon there was not much time to resolve what behaves different in data than in design-model.

Wrt belief, i called for Q1/07 availability of 65nm products from AMD since back in 04, despite what AMD said. It's on the record on ihub.

K.