AMD to launch Spider this November, 45nm coming in mid-2008
In a financial conference, AMD disclosed a series of its plans that it is looking to follow till the mid-2008. The company in the very first plan reconfirmed its dedication to launch the new Spider platform coming November featuring the all new quad core processor Phenom combined with RV670 graphic processors and RD790 chipsets. Moving on to AMD's plans on 45nm technology, AMD officials clearly stated that they will start manufacturing CPUs based on the 45nm technology somewhere in the mid-2008 or earlier. AMD also said that they have shutdown the Dresden based Fabs-30 so as to upgrade it to Fabs-38 which will be capable of manufacturing 300mm wafers. Finally, moving on to their third quarter financial results AMD said that they were able to keep their desktop market share away from Intel and have clinched some market share in the mobile world. The meeting was more bent towards to the upcoming plans of AMD rather to be a financial meeting, clearly to keep the media away from the $394 million loss they had suffered this quarter.
