AMD Announces 65-nm Chips, Touts Power Savings

Several readers wrote in about AMD's entry into the 65-nm manufacturing generation. The company introduced four chips to be manufactured with 65-nm process in the first quarter of 2007 to replace existing 90-nm chips in their lineup. AMD is playing up the power economy of its line, claiming that even its existing 90-nm parts consume less than 50% the power of Intel's Core 2 Duo, averaged over a typical day's usage, while the new 65-nm chips will be even stingier with power. Next stop, 45-nm. The article says that AMD has a goal of catching up within 18 months to Intel's lead on the way to 45-nm technology.

Re:Technology, progress.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm way ahead of the game, my transistors are -30nm. I had to do some funny things with space time, but they work. Until you observe them anyways. Next up, I'm going for inm chips.

Re:That's all fine and dandy....

[TheSHAD0W]

You might change your behavior if your laptop's battery lasted longer. What if it could go 12 hours without plugging in?

I have the reverse problem; HP made a few laptops with full-power Pentium 4 CPUs a couple of years ago, and I got one. It's nice and fast, but its battery life is roughly 23 seconds.

Re:That's all fine and dandy....

[cmckosaurous]

At 23 seconds I would call you lucky. With my Sony, the battery only lasted 16 seconds before it exploded! Now THAT is poor battery life.

Re:Technology, progress.

[ajlitt]

Just stay away from (-30+i)nm chips. They're way too complex.

Re:Technology, progress.

[ArcherB]

I'm way ahead of the game, my transistors are -30nm. I had to do some funny things with space time, but they work. Until you observe them anyways. Next up, I'm going for inm chips.

Great! This guy has Schroeder's Notebook!

18 months?

[abshnasko]

The article says that AMD has a goal of catching up within 18 months to Intel's lead on the way to 45-nm technology.

How are they already 18 months behind when they were ahead 4 months ago?

Re:Great!

[Anonymous Coward]

This is Slashdot, not Santa Claus. Please stay on topic.

Re:That's all fine and dandy....

[Gilmoure]

Luxury. My laptop would run out of power 45 minutes before I started it, explode, stab me to death with bread knives and then dance about on my grave singing Hallelujah. And that was if we were lucky!