AMD opens new 65nm fab

[Doug97]

I just read here:

AMD opens 65 nm Fab 36 in Dresden

that AMD are moving to 65nm processors. However, the article doesn't mention what the actual processors are going to be. I assume they will be Athlon X2's, but can anyone give informed guesses as to the clock speed (or the '+' rating AMD will give them)?

 

[mczak]

According to this somewhat more detailed (but german) article, http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/64933, the fab will first produce 90nm chips (1st quarter 2006) then transition to 65nm (end of 2006). It doesn't say what sorts of chips it will produce, but obviously it must be single or dual-core A64 chips (or Opterons, which are the same at the die level), at least for the 90nm chips.

 

[Doug97]

Can anyone make any guesses as to the clock speeds that 65nm will make possible?

 

[ANova]

Can anyone make any guesses as to the clock speeds that 65nm will make possible?

3.0GHz+

 

[jvd]

3.0GHz+

and possible more than 2 cores at these speeds .

 

[Rur0ni]

Opties(939) are doing 3Ghz on air now. So I suppose we'll get duallies coming in at that speed stock.

 

[Vadi]

Hmm for gaming I want a 4GHz single core CPU.

 

[DudeMiester]

They say the new factory will produce 100 million CPUs a year by the end of 2006. That's a lot of CPUs! So much for being production constrained, lol.