Intel FUD versus AMD fact
At the AMD CTO Summit held last week in Monterey, Calif., AMD put a few members of the press under nondisclosure and gave them a detailed look at unpublished products and plans. Tom Yager goes over a couple of facts related to the state of AMDs manufacturing process engineering in his editorial that was posted today in his blog.
The transistor innovation that AMD and IBM have developed brought most of the advantages of process shrink, like lower power consumption and reduced leakage in a transistors off state, to manufacturing. As a result, AMD carried its present process, 65nm (which is Intels standard as well), into production only when its benefits exceeded those delivered by transistor evolution and not as a reaction to Intel or any other competitor.
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