Items tagged with '65nm'

AMD Claims To Lead Discrete Mobile GPU Market

AMD Claims To Lead Discrete Mobile GPU Market

There's cheerful news from Sunnyvale today; AMD is claiming to now lead the discrete mobile GPU market with a 36.5 percent market share gain and a whopping 87.2 percent more units sold in the first six months of 2009 compared to the first six months of 2008. At this point, AMD claims to hold 53 percent of the discrete mobile... Read More
Jasper-Based Xbox 360 Consoles Hit The Scene

Jasper-Based Xbox 360 Consoles Hit The Scene

After months of anticipation and speculation, revised Xbox 360 consoles built around the new Jasper platform have finally appeared in the wild. Jasper employs an updated GPU manufactured using 65nm process, as opposed to the 90nm process used for the original revision. Other than the GPU, however, a few more changes have... Read More
AMD Will Skip Two 65nm Phenom Chips Altogether

AMD Will Skip Two 65nm Phenom Chips Altogether

According to Digitimes, AMD isn't going to bother releasing two 65 nanometer scale dual core chips they had in the development pipeline. AMD originally planned to launch two 65nm dual-core Phenom processors codenamed Kuma for the desktop PC market in May or June this year, however the company has recently suspended the... Read More
XBox360 To Cool Down With 65nm GPU

XBox360 To Cool Down With 65nm GPU

Microsoft had all sorts of trouble with the reliability of its XBox 360. Tales of the "Red Ring of Death" gave potential buyers pause, and Microsoft spend a small fortune replacing defective units. One of the main reasons the game console was so fragile is that the 90nm scale GPU ran very hot. 65nm chips to the rescue!Microsoft... Read More
PS3 To Boldly Go To 65nm...Or Not

PS3 To Boldly Go To 65nm...Or Not

There has been a lot of buzz about Sony's 40GB PS3, but sadly it looks like not all of the buzz is correct.  Sure it's still cheaper than the other current PS3/PS3 bundles, but it's not going to save you as much on electricity as you might have thought because it's still using a 90nm chip.“A Sony spokesperson has told... Read More
Unraveling The AMD 65nm Riddle

Unraveling The AMD 65nm Riddle

When AMD came out with their first 65nm X2 CPUs, a lot of fans were wondering if AMD was going to be in a good position to ramp up their existing X2 line.  If that happened, AMD might have been able to close some of the performance gap between the Core 2 Duo and the X2.Sadly, that never happened.  Instead, fans and hardware... Read More
AMD Announced 65nm Turion X2 Processors

AMD Announced 65nm Turion X2 Processors

AMD Delivers the Ultimate Mobile Platform with New 65nm AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology NVIDIA and Broadcom join AMD to showcase platform performance advantages in 3D graphics, Wireless Range and Throughput, and Battery Life SUNNYVALE, Calif. - May 2, 2007... Read More
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 65nm Brisbane Core

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 65nm Brisbane Core

Hello All. We've just posted a new article at HotHardware.com in which we evaluate the features and performance of AMD's new 65nm Brisbane core based Athlon 64 X2 5000+ processor. We compare its performance, power consumption, and overclockability to a 90nm Windsor based 5000+ throughout the article for a direct... Read More
AMD Athlon 64 X2 65nm Brisbane-Core

AMD Athlon 64 X2 65nm Brisbane-Core

  At the end of 2006, AMD announced the availability of processors built using the company's 65nm manufacturing process, which is first being implemented with the Athlon 64 X2 product line. The move to 65nm brings a number of advantages for both AMD and consumers. From AMD's standpoint, the more advanced manufacturing... Read More
NVIDAI G81 to be manufactured at 65nm?

NVIDAI G81 to be manufactured at 65nm?

The Inquirer is reporting that the refresh to NVIDIA's G80 GPU (GeForce 8 Series), which is probably code-named G81 if history is an indicator, will be manufactured on TSMC's 65nm process node. "THE G80 replacement looks like it might be known as G81, and it appears that Nvidia will take the radical step of... Read More
Intel to Open New 65nm Plant in China

Intel to Open New 65nm Plant in China

According to a report at CNET, Intel is in the process of launching a new fabrication facility in China. The new facility will focus on producing multi-core processors at the 65nm level. Inside sources were unable to give exact details on date and costs of the facility, but considering previous facility projects, the new... Read More
STMicroelectronics Announces 65nm Dual HD SoC for STBs

STMicroelectronics Announces 65nm Dual HD SoC for STBs

There has been a lot of news lately on Set Top Box (STB) System-on-Chip (SoCs) and dual High Definition (HD) mode devices, you can read more here, here and here. The latest news is a dual format, HD DVD/Blu-Ray decoder chip to be manufactured at 65nm for STBs. TMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), the world's leading supplier... Read More
AMD 65nm Athlon 64 X2 Processors with Slower L2?

AMD 65nm Athlon 64 X2 Processors with Slower L2?

Our friends at the Tech-Report have followed up their initial coverage of AMD's new 65nm Athlon 64 X2 processors with a deeper look into their performance. It turns out, the 65nm processors have higher latency access to their L2 cache, which hinders performance in some situations. "After we published our first look... Read More
New 65nm Athlon 64 X2s Coming Soon

New 65nm Athlon 64 X2s Coming Soon

Since this information is technically not under NDA embargo, we thought we'd share with you that AMD is soon releasing volume to the channel of their new 65nm process-based Athlon 64 X2 dual core chips for socket AM2.  The features and performance of these new cores will remain unchanged versus current... Read More
AMD Launches Full Scale Production Volumes At 65nm

AMD Launches Full Scale Production Volumes At 65nm

AMD DRIVES NEXT GENERATION OF ENERGY-EFFICIENT COMPUTING WITH 65NM TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION AMD continues track record of on-schedule process technology transitions with rapid conversion to 65nm SUNNYVALE, CALIF. - Dec. 5, 2006 - Launching the next generation of energy-efficient computing, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the... Read More
65nm AMD Processors Next Month?

65nm AMD Processors Next Month?

According to a report on DigiTimes, AMD is planning to launch some new Athlon 64 X2 processors on December 5 that are built using the company's 65nm process node. The report also states that AMD is making the move to 65nm sooner, rather than later, to satisfy the additional demand brought on by Dell now selling systems... Read More
AMD shows off quad core 65nm wafers

AMD shows off quad core 65nm wafers

Charlie from the Inquirer has snapped off a couple of pictures of wafers that reportedly contain 65nm Quad-Core AMD processor cores. Not much information other than the pictures, but still fun to look at nonetheless... "WHEN AND WHERE will AMD show off its 65 nanometre Rev H cores? How about two minutes ago at the Microsoft... Read More
Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 & 975X Express Chipset: 65nm is Here

Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 & 975X Express Chipset: 65nm is Here

Intel has been relatively quiet over the last eight months or so, since the initial release of the dual-core Pentium Extreme Edition 840 processor back in early April of this year. The company has released an entire line of dual-core 'Pentium D' processors since then, and have also introduced a number of new core logic... Read More