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AMD 45nm Samples in January - Execs Claim

“We have 45nm on the way. We will have initial samples also in January. I’m fairly confident that those puppies are going to boot,” said Mario Rivas, executive vice president of computing products group at AMD, in an interview with CRN web-site.

“The 45nm, we consider it Rev C of the device. So all the learning, all the hard knocks that we had on Barcelona, we're going to apply it to Shanghai,” Mr. Rivas added.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20071210230006_AMD_s_Next_Gen_Microprocessor_Still_Does_Not_Exist_Company.html

This suggests a possible 45nm launch in late 2008, assuming they execute well. Nice to see that the AMD exec is "fairly confident".