More information regarding AMD and IBM teaming up to make chips.

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More information regarding AMD and IBM teaming up  to make chips. The article was from theinquirer.net

AMD AND IBM have unveiled a cunning plan to jointly develop a new generation of chip-making technologies to create future microprocessors, including 65 and 45nm nanometer chips produced on 300mm silicon wafers.
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AMD and IBM engineers will begin working together at IBM’s Semiconductor Research and Development Centre in IBM's East Fishkill, N.Y. facility before the end of this month, the companies announced.
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Basically, IBM Electronics has got plenty of capacity and top technology -- AMD needs capacity, and if the price is right, well...

Refer to The Inquirer.net for the whole article.

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Original press release from AMD.

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*wondering when AMD is going to try to rival the current Intel performance lead*

The gamming performance gap was narrowed with arrival of nForce2 based chipsets e.g. Quake3 FPS @ +300 (normal settings, demo001).