Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

The fact that the dual-core 'Montecito' Itanium processors have been pushed out to a volume ramp up in the first half of 2006 is not only not a problem, they say it was the plan all along.

The bashers see a slip. Yet a presentation last April about
a lead customer for Montecito systems, Karlsruhe University
in Baden-Wurttemburg Germany, shows deployment in 1Q06.

From the outside, it looks like Intel is constrained as much by the 130 watt heat dissipation envelope for the top-end Itanium as it is by the yields on its current 130 nanometer and future 90 nanometer processes.

The 90 nm dual core Montecito has a *lower* TDP than both
the Madison 6M and Madison 9M 130 nm single core chips.