Sunday, March 1st 2009
AMD 32 nm CPU Conquest to Begin in 2010
After spinning off its manufacturing division to The Foundry Co., AMD is left with all the engineering resources it needs to make processors. Contradicting older roadmap slides by the company predicting it would start selling 32 nm processors in 2011, Dirk Meyer, CEO of AMD in an interview with Information Week said that the company is on-track to ship smaller, more powerful processors built on the 32 nm manufacturing process by 2010.
The new manufacturing process would allow the chip maker to step up transistor counts to add more features and computational power. Tomorrow, on March 2, the AMD is expected to close the deal with Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) of Abu Dhabi to form The Foundry Company (TFC). This would render AMD fabless. The company will then, like other fabless market heavyweights such as NVIDIA and VIA, will focus on designing processors, while TFC, its largest foundry partner will manufacture the processors. Currently AMD is tied up with foundry companies such as TSMC and UMC for manufacturing products of its Graphics Products Group, products such as GPUs and chipset.
AMD will be an year behind larger market rival Intel in selling processors built on the 32 nm technology. Intel plans to roll out 32 nm processors by Q4 2009. AMD's designs will be ready by mid-2010, following which volume production of its 32 nm chips will commence by Q4 2010.
Source:
Information Week
The new manufacturing process would allow the chip maker to step up transistor counts to add more features and computational power. Tomorrow, on March 2, the AMD is expected to close the deal with Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) of Abu Dhabi to form The Foundry Company (TFC). This would render AMD fabless. The company will then, like other fabless market heavyweights such as NVIDIA and VIA, will focus on designing processors, while TFC, its largest foundry partner will manufacture the processors. Currently AMD is tied up with foundry companies such as TSMC and UMC for manufacturing products of its Graphics Products Group, products such as GPUs and chipset.
AMD will be an year behind larger market rival Intel in selling processors built on the 32 nm technology. Intel plans to roll out 32 nm processors by Q4 2009. AMD's designs will be ready by mid-2010, following which volume production of its 32 nm chips will commence by Q4 2010.
35 Comments on AMD 32 nm CPU Conquest to Begin in 2010
Focus seems to be a priority, which could mean a better performing and better quality end product. I hope so.
Or
Room stays the same size, things get smaller, more number of things fit in the room.
Manufacturing technology has nothing to do with the die-area.
This is why 3GHz on a Intel chip is usually more powerful than on a AMD chip because the AMD has a lower Transistor count.
so by the time they land in 2010, isn't that when intel want to land 32nm 6 core - hyper threaded chips?
Conquest you say?
Also with 32nm you can expect to see 20-24 core Processors from AMD since AMD designs their CPUs to be VERY small.
Last I checked, TFC had more $$ than Intel did... Since well... everytime a dude/woman fills up their tank with gas... thats a few dollars more that goes into TFC. So... telling AMD Fanboys to dream on is a very... sad thing to say.
small they may be, but a jump from 4 to 20 is a bit bogus man, they need to step up slowly just like everyone else.
telling AMD fanboys to dream on is a bit sad, but at this stage it is just a dream to come out on top of intel, as soon as they release a product, its already 1 step behind intel.
AM3 came to rival Core 2 marchitecture nicely, just 18 months too late.
more cores = more complex software to actually take advantage.
and AMD has not lost any race at all.
Transistors@(X)GHz/price is the real race
for example 2 chips 1 has 500million @3GHz, the other 1billion@3GHz
if chip 1 is $200 and chip 2 is $65 then chip 2 wins even though chip 1 is faster
you have to understand most people are not enthusiast and dont know the difference very well but like the $65 much more than $200 especially since they never even tap into that power the chip 1 has.
so there are 2 races 1, the race for transistors/power/fabrication. race two is same as race 1 but the mighty $ factored in.
but the race is definitely not over and in the best interest of the consumer (us)
you want the race to be pretty close
I for one am not bias on CPU's
I love both Intel and AMD.