Replies to post #2545 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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"you will conclude that Intel must have silicon now on 90nm process technology"

Probably. But AMD likely has a spin or two for the Hammers at 90nm now also. The SRAM rhing is a bit of a red herring, since Intel likes to use very large caches, they like to take that opportunity to hone their skills on large SRAM arrays to qualify the process. AMD usually does a small and then moderate SRAM, and then does a processor to qual a process. So a 4 meg. SOI SRAM was the largest they had planned and tapeout on a processor was the next step. Which, apparently they did because in the pdf they claimed to have already done the tapeout on a Hammer and it was already in process. Now the test processor often isn't one slated for production, for example they used a K6 to qual the copper process at Dresden, needless to say there never was a product like that. So AMD likely has at least one spin of a 90nm Hammer floating around, I would guess a 1Meg Opteron, which doesn't put them all that far behind Intel...