AMD Starts Shipping 90-Nanometer Chips

KingFishKingFish
edited August 2004 in Science & 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

  • JustinJustin Atlanta
    edited August 2004
    And why do we want 90nm?
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited August 2004
    Cooler, faster, lower voltage help any ;).
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited August 2004
    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.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2004
    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.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    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.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2004
    IBM is using SOI too, no? IBM is having heat problems as well.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited August 2004
    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.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2004
    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.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited August 2004
    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.
  • audiophile
    edited August 2004
    "90-millimeter manufacturing a couple of times"

    90 millimeter? THAT'S HUGE!
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited August 2004
    Hmmm yes it should be nanometer. Nice catch. It was copied from its source which updated its story.
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