Replies to post #61261 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[mmoy]

So you walk into the hotel room and the AMD dude whispers:
"do you want to see something really cool?"

He reaches behind the television set and takes out a small
box, walks over to the table with the phone, hotel restaurant
menu and the hotel directory and shows you the chip which has
65 NM written in very small print. Then he makes you promise
that you won't tell anyone else that it's shipping in two
months.

[wbmw]

Combjelly, I disagree.

Intel demoed a ton of 65nm products and made a lot of noise. AMD's 65nm absence made them look behind. The dual core Turion demo was a joke. Everyone knows it's going to be nearly twice the power dissipation of current Turion chips (which would defeat the purpose), or be clocked incredibly slow just to meet the power envelopes (which would be performance uncompetitive).

AMD loves to counter Intel PR in any way they possibly can. If they had 65nm anything at this point, it would have been on prominent display.