AMD's Fab 36 officially open
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~101840,00.html
For those of you who don't follow cpus as close as myself, Fab36 is AMD's first 300mm wafer plant, and is expected to be AMD's main fab for several years. Should increase their production capacity.
Cheaper Athlon 64/Turions is something that's possible, if not, once it starts producing it will eliminate another "Dell doesn't sell AMD because..." defense (... being AMD can't produce enough chips.)
Mentioned in the link: AMD is right now using 90nm processes, as is Intel, but Intel will be transitioning to 65nm a bit before AMD. Usually a lower process size indicates lower power usage, heat, etc. Though Intel managed to not have that happen with the Prescott core Pentium 4 90nm. (And it performed worse than the 130nm parts.)
Intel's 'focus' on performance per watt, (and the consequent abandonment of Pentium 4s) should make it interesting.
For those of you who don't follow cpus as close as myself, Fab36 is AMD's first 300mm wafer plant, and is expected to be AMD's main fab for several years. Should increase their production capacity.
Cheaper Athlon 64/Turions is something that's possible, if not, once it starts producing it will eliminate another "Dell doesn't sell AMD because..." defense (... being AMD can't produce enough chips.)
Mentioned in the link: AMD is right now using 90nm processes, as is Intel, but Intel will be transitioning to 65nm a bit before AMD. Usually a lower process size indicates lower power usage, heat, etc. Though Intel managed to not have that happen with the Prescott core Pentium 4 90nm. (And it performed worse than the 130nm parts.)
Intel's 'focus' on performance per watt, (and the consequent abandonment of Pentium 4s) should make it interesting.