HKEPC has received news from a motherboard manufacturer that AMD will start supplying 65nm CPUs in December 2006, first for the OEM market. The consumer market will get theirs in Quarter 1 of 2007, first in Dual Core variants only, including Athlon 64x2 4200+ (2.2Ghz/512KB L2 x2), Athlon 64x2 4400+ (2.2GHz/1MB L2 x2), Athlon 64x2 4600+ (2.4GHz/512KB L2 x2) and Athlon 64x2 4800+ (2.4GHz/1MB L2 x2). The higher-end models however, such as Athlon 64x2 5000+ (2.6GHz/512KB L2 x2), Athlon 64x2 5200+ (2.6GHz/1MB L2 x2), Athlon 64x2 5400+ (2.8GHz/512KB L2 x2), FX-62(2.8GHz/1MB L2 x2) and FX-64(3.0GHz/1MB L2 x2) will still remain on 90nm process during this transition period.
The new 65nm AMD Athlon 64x2 cores will be
code-named Brisbane, and will manufactured using Strees Memorization and 3rd Strained Silicon technology, enhancing electronic capability by up to 42%, enabling lower power consumption. Brisbane is not to replace the Winsor cores and they will both have their place in the market, while AMD imprvoes on their 65nm manufacturing process. As AMD will be making the Dual Cores mainstream in the first half of 2007, and replacing the single cores on the next half, there will be no plans to shift single core processors over to the 65nm process. The low-priced Semprons will go into the 65nm process at the second half of 2007, named
Sparta.
To combat supply shortage problems, AMD will step up the production in Dresden Fab36 12 and Fab 30 8 in Germany, at the same time working together with Chartered Semiconductor in Singapore.

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