Originally posted by: ViRGE
There's this little part of me screaming in terror looking at that announcement. AMD is only up to 2.6ghz on their shipping 65nm Brisbane core CPUs, the current 5200+ and later are still 90nm. I have a strong gut feeling that this will be another 90nm part, I can't even begin to imagine the kind of inferno such a chip is going to be(the TDP of a 6000+ is already 125W).
And oh so not long ago there was an AMD who insisted on making fun of then Intel's Prescotts who delivered heat in bucket loads. But oh look, it's now AMD whose the heat factory.
Since Core 2 Duo/Quad was launched AMD no longer seems eager to ask Intel to a duel and see which processor wins or for that matter remind us all about the 10 made-up reasons, according to them, why Intel didn't choose to accept the duel back in 2005.
Everyone can believe what they want at the end of the day but if 65nm production stops at 2.6GHz then AMD must be having 65nm problems that their Phenom/Agena only underlines yet again.
Of course there's more to the story, AMD knows its the bottom to medium processor segments which need to be made in 65nm to ensure a better profit due to low commercial prices of these chips but also knows it hasn't got enough capacity to mame 65nm high-end parts even if the yields were perfect. The net result of this is obviously 140-150W TDP 6400+ X2's and FX-74's.