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For AMD Success Means Problems

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the too-much-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AMD's success with its dual-core Opteron and Athlon processors has created something of a happy problem for the company. It can't make its products fast enough to meet demand. Just the same, with the Intel price war heating up and new 65-nanometer manufacturing technology being implemented in its factories, AMD has a lot of balls in the air right now." From the News.com article: "AMD's current pickle is the result of its success, which makes it a little easier to swallow for company executives. Demand is high, but the company's dual-core processors still use its 90-nanometer manufacturing technology. Intel's chips, on the other hand, are built using the smaller transistors provided by its 65-nanometer manufacturing technology. Not only is AMD using larger transistors, but its dual-core Opteron and Athlon 64 processors contain two processing cores integrated onto a single piece of silicon, or a die. This design has given AMD great performance during the past few years, but resulted in processors that were almost twice the size of its single-core chips."

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  1. ATI purchase by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For what it's worth, AMD also finalized the purchase of ATI today for $5.4 billion USD. I submitted that earlier, but I guess it was rejected in favor of the multitude of droll game postings today.

  2. Re:I hate it when... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What good are balls in the air, when they've insufficient balls to release the specs and/or the driver source?

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  3. Balls in the air? by Drel · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let's think outside the box and come up with a new paradigm.

    *retch*

  4. Re:Does size matter? by mnmn · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    So right now building a new fab is at its most profitable?

    How can we run out of silicon? Its in the sand. How come China isnt coming out with mountains of pure silicon for sale if the demand has been this good for this many years?

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  5. Re:I hate it when... by MightyYar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And yet I get modded "troll"... I guess there isn't a "fucking obvious" mod. Is "balls in the air" an expression somewhere? I've never heard that before. I presume it is a juggling reference.

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  6. Bad means good. by k4_pacific · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For AMD Success Means Problems, and also, to shake your booty means to wiggle one's butt. Permit me to demonstrate.

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  7. Woot!? 7p by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    as fiT7ingly

  8. Re:I hate it when... by MightyYar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hålla många bollar i luften.

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