AMD Admits Delays of 45nm Products

[Idontcare]

It's from Xbitlabs...

Advanced Micro Devices on Friday admitted that it would only begin shipments of products made using 45nm process technology in the fourth quarter of the year. This is a delay from the original schedule to start ?volume? production by mid-2008, besides it also means that AMD will have uneasy times delivering better products to the market in Q2 and Q3, 2008.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/c...in_Fourth_Quarter.html

 

[Viditor]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
It's from Xbitlabs...

Advanced Micro Devices on Friday admitted that it would only begin shipments of products made using 45nm process technology in the fourth quarter of the year. This is a delay from the original schedule to start ?volume? production by mid-2008, besides it also means that AMD will have uneasy times delivering better products to the market in Q2 and Q3, 2008.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/c...in_Fourth_Quarter.html

I think Anton messed up...he even says "This is a delay from the original schedule to start ?volume? production by mid-2008".

Starting volume production in mid 2008 means delivery in Q4 because it takes 3 months to produce a chip...

 

[21stHermit]

Originally posted by: Viditor
....... it takes 3 months to produce a chip...

I don't think so.

I can't imagine a 12" wafer taking more than a day through fab, then testing and marking the good dies, air freight to Malasia or wherever for packaging. Two weeks top from bare wafer to finished CPU.

Perhaps you were referring to something else?

 

[jones377]

Originally posted by: 21stHermit

Originally posted by: Viditor
....... it takes 3 months to produce a chip...

I don't think so.

I can't imagine a 12" wafer taking more than a day through fab, then testing and marking the good dies, air freight to Malasia or wherever for packaging. Two weeks top from bare wafer to finished CPU.

Perhaps you were referring to something else?

There is no need to imagine anything. Just research wafer production a bit.

 

[Viditor]

Originally posted by: jones377

Originally posted by: 21stHermit

Originally posted by: Viditor
....... it takes 3 months to produce a chip...

I don't think so.

I can't imagine a 12" wafer taking more than a day through fab, then testing and marking the good dies, air freight to Malasia or wherever for packaging. Two weeks top from bare wafer to finished CPU.

Perhaps you were referring to something else?

There is no need to imagine anything. Just research wafer production a bit.

no doubt...
No, I wasn't referring to anything else. It takes about 90 days to get a wafer to chip.

I Don't Care can probably verify this as this is his field...

 

[jones377]

Originally posted by: Viditor

Originally posted by: jones377

Originally posted by: 21stHermit

Originally posted by: Viditor
....... it takes 3 months to produce a chip...

I don't think so.

I can't imagine a 12" wafer taking more than a day through fab, then testing and marking the good dies, air freight to Malasia or wherever for packaging. Two weeks top from bare wafer to finished CPU.

Perhaps you were referring to something else?

There is no need to imagine anything. Just research wafer production a bit.

no doubt...
No, I wasn't referring to anything else. It takes about 90 days to get a wafer to chip.

I Don't Care can probably verify this as this is his field...

lol I'm actually agreeing with you 😉

 

[Viditor]

Originally posted by: jones377

Originally posted by: Viditor

Originally posted by: jones377

Originally posted by: 21stHermit

Originally posted by: Viditor
....... it takes 3 months to produce a chip...

I don't think so.

I can't imagine a 12" wafer taking more than a day through fab, then testing and marking the good dies, air freight to Malasia or wherever for packaging. Two weeks top from bare wafer to finished CPU.

Perhaps you were referring to something else?

There is no need to imagine anything. Just research wafer production a bit.

no doubt...
No, I wasn't referring to anything else. It takes about 90 days to get a wafer to chip.

I Don't Care can probably verify this as this is his field...

lol I'm actually agreeing with you 😉

I know you were m8...I was reiterating for Hermit.
It's 1AM and my communication skills are a bit fuzzy...sorry bout that. 😕

Edit: I found a simple guide to wafer production if you're interested Hermit..
CPUShack

 

[bryanW1995]

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[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: 21stHermit

Originally posted by: Viditor
....... it takes 3 months to produce a chip...

I don't think so.

I can't imagine a 12" wafer taking more than a day through fab, then testing and marking the good dies, air freight to Malasia or wherever for packaging. Two weeks top from bare wafer to finished CPU.

Perhaps you were referring to something else?

Viditor and jones377 are on the money. An 11ML device at 65nm node will take ~80days to make its way thru the fab, 70days if the fab is really under-loaded. But once it exits the fab it still has ~2weeks of test and packaging to meander thru.

Originally posted by: Viditor

Originally posted by: Idontcare
It's from Xbitlabs...

Advanced Micro Devices on Friday admitted that it would only begin shipments of products made using 45nm process technology in the fourth quarter of the year. This is a delay from the original schedule to start ?volume? production by mid-2008, besides it also means that AMD will have uneasy times delivering better products to the market in Q2 and Q3, 2008.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/c...in_Fourth_Quarter.html

I think Anton messed up...he even says "This is a delay from the original schedule to start ?volume? production by mid-2008".

Starting volume production in mid 2008 means delivery in Q4 because it takes 3 months to produce a chip...

So which part do you think he meant? The first sentence is the one that has me concerned.

The rest of those sentences (IMO) are just someone's attempt to extrapolate the consequences of AMD's comments (and as you noted they did a piss poor job with the math).

I hadn't been really following AMD's stated plans all that aggresively, you can call me "bit twice and now twice shy" when it comes to AMD's product plans, but I thought the volume ships were supposed to be hitting in Q3 (Sept'ish).

Or maybe I was just enthusiastically dreaming and convinced myself AMD was going to do that. I hate to read Dirk saying Q4 as in AMD speak that means "in Dec, at the absolute friggen best case scenario".

 

[Phynaz]

If you look at the document right here on AMD's web site, you will see that 45nm is at least one year late (slide 19).

And for something amusing, read slide 27 🙂

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Phynaz
If you look at the document right here on AMD's web site, you will see that 45nm is at least one year late (slide 19).

And for something amusing, read slide 27 🙂

If Fred Weber hadn't left the K10 up to Phil Hester who knows what shape AMD would be in right now.