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AMD's Next Generation Processor Technology

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday June 12, 2003 @05:36AM from the chugging-the-numbers dept.

Esekla writes "AMD has released info about their upcoming processor technology. The press release claims that they're producing circuits that run 30% faster than any other published benchmarks using "Fully Depleted" Silicon-on-Insulator and AMD's metal gating technology and actually has a good bit of technical detail for a press release."

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Excellent... by ceswiedler · 2003-06-12 05:38 · Score: 2, Offtopic

If nothing else, this should pump up my AMD stock.

Does anyone know if this is press-release hype or a real breakthrough? I'm not a semiconductor expert. But my suspicion is, real breakthroughs generally don't get announced in marketing press-releases on Yahoo Finance.