Well, this article has a few notable factual errors, such as it's making
it sound like AMD is introducing 90nm SOI for the first time into its
desktop processors, which is what's making them more power efficient.
All AMD64 processors have been using SOI, since 130nm.

Of course it's part of the ongoing war between the two processor makers.
If AMD were able to make 65W & 35W desktop processors before, you gotta
wonder why they didn't introduce it till now.

http://www.cbronline.com/article_new...4-25A0D9C6AF90

Yousuf Khan

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:51:13 -0400, Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Well, this article has a few notable factual errors, such as it's making
>it sound like AMD is introducing 90nm SOI for the first time into its
>desktop processors, which is what's making them more power efficient.
>All AMD64 processors have been using SOI, since 130nm.
>
>Of course it's part of the ongoing war between the two processor makers.
>If AMD were able to make 65W & 35W desktop processors before, you gotta
>wonder why they didn't introduce it till now.
>
>http://www.cbronline.com/article_new...4-25A0D9C6AF90
>
> Yousuf Khan

The article is dated 17th May 2006. I bet it took the author quite
some time to write the blurb, and even more time before that just to
do some reading and get a grip (sort of) on the topic.
NNN

Yousuf Khan wrote:

> Well, this article has a few notable factual errors, such as it's making
> it sound like AMD is introducing 90nm SOI for the first time into its
> desktop processors, which is what's making them more power efficient.
> All AMD64 processors have been using SOI, since 130nm.
>
> Of course it's part of the ongoing war between the two processor makers.
> If AMD were able to make 65W & 35W desktop processors before, you gotta
> wonder why they didn't introduce it till now.
>
> http://www.cbronline.com/article_new...4-25A0D9C6AF90


it's a month+ old, but a decent writeup

thank you for the ref.

and no, i don't think the article "...is making
it sound like AMD is introducing 90nm SOI
for the first time...", but then i haven't
been paying that much attention to what AMD
offers for their destop CPUs

you only need to go out to www.pricewatch.com
and look at the current 90nm Opteron (940, and
yes that *is* a server type chip) price
differences for standard 90nm chips vs.
the higher prices for 90 nm EE, and HE chips
(i assume EE/HE are SOI)

your above ref, and your other very recent
post (re Tom's Hardware / on Woodcrest with
"preying" (your word not mine, LOL!)) in the
post title, suggest to me that upcoming CPU
price drops will also affect 940 Opteron in
roughly the next half year

the 1st page pix in the article at Anand's
recent cpu/chipset article also suggests it:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=2768

bill