AMD @ 65nm!!!

I know it's the inquirer, but the inquirer ave got news saying that amd's 65nm cpus are gona be shipped in october. i am thinking right now, where are the in engineering samples, as well as previews and reviews???

Seems like AMD are keeping everything under tight lips, which i think for suprise factor will work well, but overall will cause less sales. Heres a linky

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- Paul

That's pretty interesting, and also sounds a lot like AMDs doings. Remember Venice, for example? It was released from one day to the next with almost no warning... It has been AMDs recent style to stay quiet, and they're quite good at it.

The only question is now how their chip architecture will be. As it remains, Intel chips can still complete more operations per clock cycle than AMD chips. Taking that further, Intel is ready to scale their chips really, really high. Intel are masters of scaling by now anyways! AMD will not beat it's rival on production processes, so it needs a pretty damn good design.

Well its a move. As far as i am concerned, i want a new cpu, and was about to order a core 2 duo. now things are on halt again, lol. I want a cpu faster than mine n a core to core bases. My venic runs at 2.9ghz, so unless i know i am more than likely gona pull more now from amd, i will get a core 2 duo(allendale). If amd though with the 65nm change can manage 3.5ghz+, it may be questionable to watch in. If it scales further(which i doubt), i will even more interested.

But really i wana see what these babies can do

- Paul

ps - also , do not be mistake here. i do not want this to beat core 2 duo, cause that will just destroy the cpu development in my eyes for a period of time, and with the way gpu's are progessing, we can't afford that to happen.

I wouldn't expect more AMD scaling for a while. The changes in 65nm aren't much yet, they're still using about the same volts as 90nm and AMD plans to scale that back in the future as they improve the process. Remember, no real architectural changes yet for AMD, just a process shrink. My money is still on Core 2 and Intel, we'll see what happens with the K8L for AMD in 2007. If I were building a rig right now it certainly would be Core 2.