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AMD Qualifies Production of 65nm Logic on 300mm Wafers.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20050408081329.html

“We are qualifying equipment as we speak. Fab 36 was designed to be a 65-nm from the start. We are making great strides with IBM and our SRAM yields are hitting all our milestones,” said AMD’s Automated Precision Manufacturing (APM) director Tom Sonderman in an interview with EETimes web-site.

AMD completed the Fab 36 building in late 2004 and then started installation of the equipment. According to the original plan the company aimed to start qualifications of the factory in the late 1H 2005. AMD Fab 36 is expected to be in volume production in 2006.

“The whole idea is to begin to process 65-nm in the middle of 2005 and bring it into production in 2006. We're certainly on schedule,” Mr. Sonderman added.

Is it just me, or does AMD sound even further behind with 65nm? There's still no mention of 65nm prototype CPUs, just some vague references to factory qualification and yields of SRAM product. You would think they would brag a little more if they had anything to brag about.