AMD Responds
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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.
Source: TG Daily
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.
Will all these tactics work? Does K8L have what it takes to regain the performance crown from Intel’s Core Duo's architecture? Only time will tell.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. Typically, Intel and AMD take about 24 months to transition to a new manufacturing process: With Intel being on track to introduce 45 nm in late 2007/early 2008, it seems that AMD will try to tackle Intel at the rival's core strength and may cut its current 12 month disadvantage in half.
Source: TG Daily
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