This is definitely not good news if you are an AMD fan or just someone hoping that AMD can stay competitive with Intel to keep prices down. According to the road-map, it looks like AMD will be riding the 45nm wave for their CPUs through 2010 until these chips featuring its new micro-architecture. This means that AMD will be at least 1.5 years behind Intel in getting 32nm products to the market. However, there are a lot of promises in store for these new chips including a complete redesign which will bring about considerably higher performance and the SSE5 instruction set. I just hope I can wait that long to get some great chips. I’ll take an Istanbul 6 core chip to hold off though!
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Just as AMD was catching up Intel went ahead and flexed its muscle and showed off a 32nm system. This comes on the same day as Intel announcing that it planning to invest $7 billion in processor fabs for the 32nm processors. The first chips that will be 32nm will be from codename Westmere. Where the tech gets interesting is that the plan on having a mobile chip that integrates a graphics and memory controller in one 45nm chip. There are no dates set in stone for the 32nm CPUs and it won’t be anytime soon as Calpella, the Nahalem mobile version, has just been delayed which was supposed to come out Q3 2009. There were no benchmarks either, today was just a demo. Engadget did a very nice writeup on all of this to help set straight all of the codenames Intel uses as it can get very confusing. There is also a nice video presentation.
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Intel is set to announce that it has completed development on its 32nm chip manufacturing process and it set to begin mass production for the chips release in late 2009. Intel’s plans aren’t final on the production of the Nahalem shrink Westmere chips because not much is known about the fabs that will produce them, but they are still on target for a Q4 2009 release. With the announcement that the development stage for the 32nm chips is complete and now in production, the 22nm chips come out of research and fill the development spot. To complete the development trifecta, the 16nm chips have now dropped into the research phase. This will put Intel about a year ahead of AMD in regards to the 32nm processor goal which just released its 45nm processors this past month. AMD, however, might be able to challenge Intel for the 22nm spot as it is partnering with IBM to develop it.
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