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AMD says 45nm production starts in summer

by on18 April 2008


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Update: CFO confirms, but Q4 for production

   
AMD’s Chief Financial officer has pre announced that AMD is on plan to start 45nm production with mature yields this summer.


Robert J. Rivet Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at AMD did catch us off guard with this announcement as we believed that 45nm parts might start showing a bit later than summer. Bob didn’t actually say which quarter he is talking about but it is highly likely to expect 45nm parts in very late Q3 2008. Prior to this announcement AMD was always saying that 45nm production starts in the second half of 2008.

If AMD gets ready to produce decent speeds at decent quantities of its 45nm quad core, and if that happens before back to school (late August), the company might actually have something to fight Intel and its Core 2 duo / quad-series.

Back at CeBIT, AMD’s official’s have confirmed to Fudzilla that Quad-core CPU codenamed Deneb with 6MB cache is the first 45nm part to come and you can read it here. We expect both the Desktop and Server version of Deneb at roughly the same, “summer time” as Bob would say, time.

Lets hope for the company’s sake that he is right.

Update: Dirk Meyer second in command at AMD as President and Chief Operating Officer has confirmed that dispite summer start of 45nm production that we should see the volume product in Q4.

Last modified on 18 April 2008
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