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Jerry Sanders, uno dei maggiori esponenti AMD, ha parlato oggi alla Morgan Stanley Semiconductor and Systems Conference. The Inquirer ha riassunto a questo indirizzo alcune delle parti più interessanti:

"There will be a steady increase in performance and by end of this year we'll have a model 3400 by the end of this year which will outperform a 3.4GHz Pentium 4," he claimed.
He said that AMD also expected to gain market share in the mobile marketplace. It had no part in the fastest growing sector, thin and light, but he said that would change because with the introduction of its 130 nanometer technology AMD would be able to make 15 to 25 watt microprocessors.

Mobile roadmaps show AMD having a 1500 chip which would outperform Intel chips in the mainstream notebook sector. He said next quarter AMD would have a 1900 mobile processor and a 1400 processor for the thin and light market.

That would give AMD a substantial cost advantage, giving it something like 33 per cent in costs by the end of next year. Moving to 12-inch (300 millimeter) wafers wouldn't help if die sizes were huge, it would merely narrow the gap, he claimed.

He said AMD now had, across the board, a common architecture in hardware and software with higher performance and providing an evolution to 64 bit. That 64-bit came to the customers at no extra charge, he claimed.

"All Hammer processors can run Windows XP, Linux, DOS, they can run new 64-bit OSes and they can run them at full speed," he said.