Xbitlabs reports that AMD revealed publicly that it plans to start shipping 45nm CPUs by the second half of the year.
This seems like the kind of comment to do when your company has kept sinking for months in the stock market. Analysts need something positive to report about.
While - as a long time customer of AMD - I would like this to be true, given the current delays in the release of new products, or working ones, this seems a bit delusional.
If AMD ends up true to it's word, it's probably just one more process shrink were they will be waving 65nm CPUs as flagships - nothing to be excited about.
They need this process shrink for yesterday, not six months from now.
AMD's graphics product group, ATI, managed to ship 55nm GPUs a few months ago while AMD is still stuck with 65nm. The last time I checked, CPUs are supposed to be way ahead GPUs in manufacturing technology.
AMD needs to turn around quickly and the B3 revision of Phenom, while looking like a decent price/performance part, will by no means save the company or bring them to the high-end, where the money is. You can't have notoriety without being the top dog.
If most retailers didn't get happy when AMD couldn't ship enough Athlon 64 CPUs, from Venice single-core to dual-core Toledos, they now are at a point where they don't even care about your products. Intel has the best and plenty of it.
Most of the time they don't even hear about AMD anymore - it doesn't get much worse than that.
It's a very different sight from the one we had, not long ago, when previously Intel only Dell had to start selling AMD machines due to costumer demand. Most people thought of it as impossible.
Making the impossible possible is what AMD should be aiming at.
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