65-nm Intel CPUs due in late '05Follow

65-nm Intel CPUs due in late '05

This is supposed to be more of a pure process shrink, but given all the troubles they had going from 130 to 90 nm, I'm guessing it will be 2006 before you are able to buy a 65 nm Intel CPU.

If AMD and IBM can come up with something sooner, AMD might really be able to challenge Intel, given that AMD's architecture is much better suited for the future.

I'm really interested to see what they will do after 65 nm.

They'll have to start using FinFETs or trigate transistors, they just can't get much below 65 nm with conventional transistors.

They've already got gate oxides that are only a nanometer in thickness.

So, just from the process point of view, I'm curious to see what will happen.

As far as the architectures go, I'm just waiting for Intel to completely scrap their desktop design and adopt a multi-core architecture based off of the Pentium M.

AMD's architecture is going to scale much better than Intel's on the desktop side, and for desktops, it's going to be all about multiple cores on a single die.

They did away with the marketing frequency hype, so perhaps now they can actually build an architecture without forty pipeline steps just so they can claim the highest operating frequency.

Uh-oh....I think we've "struck a nerd".

You sir, are no gentleman. I'm beginning to think you might not even be a prince.