More AMD 65nm Updates

Athlon 64 X2 and Sempron processors will be getting 65nm Fab process treatments. Single-core AMD Athlon products will remain on a 90nm Fab process with no foreseeable 65nm future. With the new 65nm Fab process AMD will be able to increase frequency increases of 100MHz increments unlike the 200MHz increments of current products. This will be interesting as AMD can theoretically abandon all 2x1MB parts in favor of 2x512KB parts with 100MHz frequency differences.

Everything seems fine, except for these 100MHz increments. Are we going to be seeing ‘more’ processor models, because of the extra freedom? I think it would pay off to keep things simple, really.