Tech giants form tiny chip group

Well considering Intel already has 32nm SRAM chips working I don't think it will be hard for them to do it alone. Money may be one thing but you have to remember that in the past 1.5 years C2D and C2Q have been selling very well so I am sure that Intel will have the money to build the FABs.

Also they could just convert one of their 65nm FABs to 32nm since 45nm will take over in 08 and on and 32nm in 09 and on. It will also cost less to convert a FAB than build a new one like in Chandler.

I can tell that Intel more than likely will do this easily and the others will be working on either SOI(which I doubt will work) or a Hafnium based design like Intel is using for 45nm and smaller.

And what of AMD? *sniggers*

This is about the 4th industry collaborative effort (that I know of) where Intel has chosen not to participate. I can appreciate that Intel as gobs of money to "go it alone" but I would think (there I go thinking again!) that Intel would want have some input with creating the standards or influence best practices. Obviously Intel has their formula and it appears to be working for them. But much like Quickpath, x86-64, and IMC Intel would rather re-create and re-engineer what these types of industry collaborations have already implemented.

Good news is that this type of effort means that AMD is still in the game and is looking at the long term. I just hope that this helps AMD pull their head out of their hiney and get it together.