Intel To Ship 100 Millionth 45 Nm CPU Before Year End

[Guest]

Santa Clara (CA) - Intel continues to speed down the 45 nm path, shipping dozens of millions of processors before AMD will get its first 45 nm CPU into customer hands.

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[hellwig]

Just because all corporations are the same, this seems like tricky numbers to me. Are they counting two units for every quad-core processor they ship, seeing as how quad-core Core 2 and Xeon is just two dual-core's soldered together? It's still a lot of chips, I just doubt there are 100 million computers out there running new Intel 45nm chips.

 

[Area51]

the numnber of CPU Shipments are extremely accurate. they are continually monitored and reported to wall street. There are some customers Like Google and Yahoo that buy the Xeon CPU's in the Millions and they do this because they are trying to reduce their power consumption at the same time grow their Capacity. Also remember that only about 25% of the CPU's sold are in the US. the rest are in the other market that we may not be able to see.
IF the yields of these 45nm are as high as they say they are then Intel will have no problem ramping the Next Gen CPU's since they are also on the 45nm Fabrication... They do the old technology just to get good at the fabrication then they introduce a new platform with hight competency of the manufacturing process..
Hope this answers your comments Hellwig.