2012-12-21-312

90nm Athlon 64 Mass Production In Q3

AMD Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Robert J. Rivet haspresented at the Morgan Stanley Semiconductor and Systems Conference today andhere are some information he has shared regarding the upcoming 90nm Athlon 64 :

AMD is right on target to ship out 1M units of Opteron and Athlon 64 in thisquarterAMD's strategy is to establish in server first (high end client first),then mobile then desktopAMD to start fab conversion for 90nm process in 5 weeksFirst 90nm production silicon in April, volume production in July andavailability around September-October targeted at Athlon 64 family90nm Athlon 64 (Winchester) will be around 98-102mm2 in diesize, about half the size of a 130nm Athlon 64 (193mm2) and smallerthan Intel Prescott (112mm2)

Some of the architectural improvements such as SSE3 and DDR-2 might just be present inthe 90nm Athlon 64.