Intel Corp (INTC)

[Jerry R]

I think it's a foregone conclusion. There's nothing to drive volumes and revenue to pay for process development. It's only a matter of time.

Of course, this begs the question of what will happen to AMD's process development schedule. With IBM acting as Hector's sugar daddy on process technology, AMD will be in serious trouble to keep up with Intel.

By the way, has AMD and/or IBM actually demo'd a functional 65nm SRAM (or any other kind of logic) design? Remember, Intel did their first SRAM demo back in November 2003:

http://www.techweb.com/wire/26802940

There are several links to papers describing circuit techniques and process parameters, but I couldn't find anything that conclusively states an actual demonstration of functional 65nm silicon from either AMD or IBM. Very interesting...