Cooler 65nm chips from AMD

Mariner · Post by **Mariner** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:28 am

Well, some blurb about reduced power consumption which, as we all know, should lead to cooler chips:

news.com link

Just a pity we'll not be seeing any AMD 65nm chips for the best part of a year.

GHz · Post by **GHz** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:35 am

If its anything like the shrink from 130-90nm, it will be well worth the wait

Post by **CA_Steve** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:59 am

Strained Si and SiGe. Woo.

=assassin= · Post by **=assassin=** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:22 am

I wonder if they'll release any low-end Socket 939 processors that use it (i.e. 3200+) Would be super cool and low power consumption

Would be great to try stock fanless systems for cheapo silencing.

Post by **CA_Steve** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:33 pm

hard to say. However, AMD did say they were going to bring it up on 90nm product prior to the 65nm (the latter in mid 06). So, maybe there will be another round of speed grades...

ronrem · Post by **ronrem** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:32 am

imagine a 65 nm chip built to have the power of a Semp 2600 or 2800. It could be a VERY cool running chip,quite easy to run passive. AMD may want to go for the Power U$er market and sell X2 5000 chips instead,,but they ought to recognize that there is a low heat/noise market segment too.

perplex · Post by **perplex** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:55 am

ronrem wrote:imagine a 65 nm chip built to have the power of a Semp 2600 or 2800. It could be a VERY cool running chip,quite easy to run passive. AMD may want to go for the Power U$er market and sell X2 5000 chips instead,,but they ought to recognize that there is a low heat/noise market segment too.

They'd have to battle with the Intel war machine. I think they'd be more succesful in doing what they're doing now - simply beating Intel with performance no questions asked.

~El~Jefe~ · Post by **~El~Jefe~** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:49 pm

Yeah, well they beat out intel in both temperature and performance. Price not exactly, some say oh yes yes, but eh, not exactly in price. Anything someone would want to buy in AMD is pricey, the mid grade stuff like 3200 Venice cores are excellent buys though.

65 nm doesnt impress me all that much. It just means they will make more profit from us per chip when they sell it. We might see a 10% reduction in cost and they will make 20% more profit. Or, most likely, 20% increase in cost and 40% profit more. yay.

Now 65 nm and 4 cores, that rox. or ~40nm with 8 cores. thats like science fiction for your home.

Now all we need is a new M$ program to waste the resources and 8 gigs of memory to make it a completely useless cycle of development. I can't wait until nicer looking menus appear! they look so useful! yea

mathias · Post by **mathias** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:09 pm

~El~Jefe~ wrote:Now 65 nm and 4 cores, that rox. or ~40nm with 8 cores. thats like science fiction for your home.

No it's not, science fiction pretty much never comes true. This has practically happaned already, when they couldn't keep ramping up the mhz's ATI and nvidia started rapidly increasing the number of pipes. Intel will probably release octa cores soon also, AMD and intel are becoming like nvidia and ATI. And intel just knocked IBM out of macs a while ago; probably not a big deal, it's only truly worth it for them to kill each other.

~El~Jefe~ · Post by **~El~Jefe~** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:32 pm

people need to learn how to program better and make their own languages.

thats basically what is holding back a quad or oct core machine from really doing some sick things with humanity. somehow its jsut 10x harder than developing the hardware.