Steve, Re: "The article doesn't mention Intel or AMD and you decide Intel at .13 is great and AMD at .13 sucks."
Look at the following articles.
digitimes.com
siliconstrategies.com
One suggests that the rest of the industry is still having problems with .13u manufacturing, and that includes AMD.
Some designers, meanwhile, voiced their frustration over bottlenecks in design flows and pointed a finger at EDA vendors. The design flows are broken, said users like John Szetela, manager for tools integration at Advanced Micro Devices Inc., and Hilton Kirk, manager of physical design at Philips Research Labs. "Late changes in the design flow are inevitable — and the automated design flow is too slow to accommodate them," said Szetela. Point tools for analyzing postlayout parasitics — IR drop, electromigration, antenna effects, signal integrity — conflict with timing-analysis tools, he said.
Meanwhile, Intel is accelerating their .13u process by transitioning their value end product there.
Intel is expected to solve the current tight supply of new Socket 478-based Celeron processors with the recent release of 1.8 GHz-version products and its plan to manufacture 1.9GHz Celerons on the 0.13-micron process.
I can put two and two together.
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