Next Month AMD To Start 90nm Production Next Month

Driver 7 · Mar 12, 2004, 05:36 PM

AMD's 90nm Athlon 64 and Opteron chips will start rolling off the company's Dresden production line in the second week of April, but you won't be able to buy a machine based on the parts until late Q3 / early Q4.

According to Robert J Rivet, AMD senior VP and CFO, AMD's timetable runs something like this. The company will punch out its first production silicon in around five weeks' time, once its 90nm silicon-on-insulator process is "fully qualified". Full-scale production will commence in July, as per the company's previous statements on 90nm chip availability.

That leaves the company a month or so to build up sufficient volumes of chips to sell to system builders and manufacturers, which brings us to product availability in September-October-November.

Certainly, AMD's two 90nm Athlon 64 parts, codenamed 'Winchester' (Athlon 64) and 'San Diego' (Athlon 64-FX) are roadmapped to appear during the second half of the year, as are the 90nm Opterons: 'Athens' (800 series), 'Troy' (200 series) and 'Venus' (100 series).

Rivet also notes that the 90nm Athlon 64's die size comes in at under 100mm² - below Intel's 90nm Pentium 4, which has a 112mm² die size. Of course, Winchester has half the L2 cache of Prescott.

Source: The Register

Mar 12, 2004, 05:36 PM	#1
Driver 7 Discombobulated NVidiot Join Date: May 2003 Location: Vancouver, BC - CANADA Posts: 1,015 Rep Power: 0	AMD To Start 90nm Production Next Month AMD's 90nm Athlon 64 and Opteron chips will start rolling off the company's Dresden production line in the second week of April, but you won't be able to buy a machine based on the parts until late Q3 / early Q4. According to Robert J Rivet, AMD senior VP and CFO, AMD's timetable runs something like this. The company will punch out its first production silicon in around five weeks' time, once its 90nm silicon-on-insulator process is "fully qualified". Full-scale production will commence in July, as per the company's previous statements on 90nm chip availability. That leaves the company a month or so to build up sufficient volumes of chips to sell to system builders and manufacturers, which brings us to product availability in September-October-November. Certainly, AMD's two 90nm Athlon 64 parts, codenamed 'Winchester' (Athlon 64) and 'San Diego' (Athlon 64-FX) are roadmapped to appear during the second half of the year, as are the 90nm Opterons: 'Athens' (800 series), 'Troy' (200 series) and 'Venus' (100 series). Rivet also notes that the 90nm Athlon 64's die size comes in at under 100mm² - below Intel's 90nm Pentium 4, which has a 112mm² die size. Of course, Winchester has half the L2 cache of Prescott. Source: The Register