Replies to post #53476 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[Sarmad]

Your post helps me rephrase my question earlier.

Does AMD has resources to design and optimize transistors for 45 nm process that are not simply their latest 65 nm transistors ?

And now back to the initial start of the discussion, how can AMD be promising the analyst community that they will have 45 nm production, when they have not produced any working samples yet ? It took Intel 10 months to go from initial samples that were able to boot windows, to production parts. I don't think it is even conceivable that AMD can do that in less time. If they don't demo a working 45 nm processor on Dec 13, their claim of mid-08 production will be seen as absurd.

[kpf]

Process development is a continuum, where you always go step by step, change by change. This is not specific for AMD, but generally so. However AMD neither did qualify, let alone manufacture volume with a "65nm process using 90nm transistors", nor will it do this for 45nm-product - if only because it would not give them enough economies to justify this.

K.