AMD Starts Shipping 90-Nanometer Chips

13 Aug, 2004 at 12:04am ET Article published in Tech

Advanced Micro Devices has begun to ship processors made on the 90-nanometer process to notebook manufacturers and will start to ship similar chips to desktop manufacturers in a month, according to a note from investment firm Goldman Sachs, which met with AMD Chief Executive Hector Ruiz.

Ruiz’s statements indicate that AMD has made its most recent deadline for shipping these chips and mastered many of the headaches involved in their production. Like competitor Intel and others, AMD had to postpone 90-millimeter manufacturing a couple of times. Originally, these chips–which sport smaller average features than chips made on the 130-nanometer process–were supposed to come out at the end of 2003. A high-end notebook chip code-named Odessa is expected to be AMD’s first 90-nanometer chip, followed by San Diego and Winchester for desktops.

Source: c|net

Comments

13 Aug 2004 ~ 2:25pm Justin And why do we want 90nm?
13 Aug 2004 ~ 2:28pm qparadox Cooler, faster, lower voltage help any .
13 Aug 2004 ~ 6:20pm mmonnin Maybe all those. With a smaller and smaller die there is more and more current leakage so they up it causing more heat, this the Presshot. That and each die shrink is adding less and less overhead for frequency increases.
13 Aug 2004 ~ 6:27pm Geeky1

qparadox wrote:

Cooler, faster, lower voltage help any .

I'll believe that when I see it. I anticipate that AMD will have the same issues that Intel and IBM are having with 0.09um stuff now.
13 Aug 2004 ~ 6:30pm Thrax I believe they'll be considerably more successful than Intel because:

A) AMD didn't try to rush it out the door like a bunny in a brushfire.

B) Intel's still trying to use strained silicon, a process designed for .13u, on .09u. AMD is using SOI, a technology designed for much smaller processes than .13.
13 Aug 2004 ~ 6:35pm Geeky1 IBM is using SOI too, no? IBM is having heat problems as well.
13 Aug 2004 ~ 6:50pm muddocktor Right on, Geeky. How many IBM produced G5 3.0 procs are now being produced? You guessed it, "0". How many G5 2.5 procs are being produced, not many. There is a large delay in shipping the higher end G5 systems right now, of which the procs are produced for Apple by IBM, using SOI.
13 Aug 2004 ~ 6:54pm Geeky1 And the 2.5s are water cooled. There's a reason for that, and it's NOT because Apple wanted to be the most advanced.
13 Aug 2004 ~ 6:56pm mmonnin

Thrax wrote:

I believe they'll be considerably more successful than Intel because:

A) AMD didn't try to rush it out the door like a bunny in a brushfire.

B) Intel's still trying to use strained silicon, a process designed for .13u, on .09u. AMD is using SOI, a technology designed for much smaller processes than .13.

Yes this should help AMD some. We will see how much tho.
14 Aug 2004 ~ 9:34am audiophile "90-millimeter manufacturing a couple of times"

90 millimeter? THAT'S HUGE!
14 Aug 2004 ~ 9:59am mmonnin Hmmm yes it should be nanometer. Nice catch. It was copied from its source which updated its story.