Replies to post #26801 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[tecate]

I think Ed has many contacts within the industry - I think his take could be correct or yours, one will only know in retrospect. I do know that using foundry's is expensive. Ideally you want your own fabs.

[Wouter Tinus]

There isn't a single quote that I'm aware of that AMD claimed it would be fully converted to 65nm by mid 2007.

It's right there in the article: http://www.overclockers.com/tips00947/slide124.jpg :)

Nah. Fab 30 was made for 180/130/90nm. As I understood it the conversion to 65nm is non trivial for this particular facility (will require more changes and hence more resources, time, and space than previous conversions in that facility).

I think the main issue here was not feature size but wafer size. They wanted 300mm wafers so they needed a new fab.

[Snowrider2]

Ixse,

I think you're right on two points:

1. AMD's full conversion to 65nm won't happen by mid 2007
2. Fab 30 is too old and probably too expensive to convert

Snow