AMD To Demonstrate Native Quad-Core This Year

[Omega65]

AMD reveals that it plans to demonstrate a next-gen Quad-Core (K8L Core) CPU before the end of 2006.

Yesterday during AMD's Q2'06 earnings conference call, AMD's President and Chief Operating Officer Dirk Meyer recapped the long term plans for the company. Although the bulk of his comments were already stated in during the June AMD Analyst's Day, Meyer also added the tidbit that the company plans "to demonstration our next-generation processor core, in a native quad-core implementation before the end of the year." Earlier this year, AMD's Executive Vice President Henri Richard claimed this native-quad core processor would be called K8L.
The rumormill currently has K8L Class CPUs arriving in 1H 2007

Source: DailyTech.com (http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3448)

[Hawk]

These are exciting times to see this killer technology coming out.
BTW, Hey Omega, Good to see you back.
Haven't seen you for a while.
How's the great city of Philly doing?
Used to live in south jersey 20 mins from Walt Whitman bridge.
Went to Chinatown to eat many,many times.
I miss my Philly Cheesesteaks too!!!!!
Played a lot of English Darts, tournaments, etc. in pubs under the L there too.

[Omega65]

:)

[Sledgehammer70]

http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48324

[Omega65]

With Intel phasing out 2 products lines at once the price war is really hitting AMD hard in the pocket book forcing them to drop prices as well to stay competitive in this new price per watt fight. Also with the recent announcement of Intel moving its Quad Core CPU's to Q4 of 2006 has given AMD another gut shot.

In response to Intel’s new strategic actions, AMD announced yesterday that they have accelerated their transition to 45nm fabrication to Early 2008 which is roughly 8-12 months behind Intel. By doing this AMD will be closing an already 18 month lead time to roughly 1 year. Also AMD wanted to let us know that their progress on their new technology K8L will still be ready for a mid 2007 launch. K8L is AMD's quad-core processors which is rumored to use far less power than Intel’s Core Duo technology & should outperform Intel's upcoming offerings.

According to president and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer, 65 nm processors will roll out in the fourth quarter of this year at "mature yields" and quickly spread through AMD's product line. The company also intends to decrease the manufacturing gap to Intel: 45 nm processors will be launched within 18 months after the debut of the 65 nm generation, which indicates an H1 2008 launch of those processors.


Source: TG Daily (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/20/amd_to_accelerate_roadmap_to_45nm/)

AMD is usually a full year behind Intel in process technology. Hopefully Meyer is right and AMD's 65nm revision F CPUs will ship in 2006