AMD says 45nm CPU out this quarter yet glitches arise

AMD in a surprising move announced today that they will have at least one 45nm processor released before the end of Q2 2008.  The next two 45nm processors won’t be released until the end of this year.  It looks like AMD is following Intel’s lead in this aspect.  Release the high end expensive processors first, then the more affordable mainstream processors later.  Taken from The Reg:

“First up, there’s the successor to the current Phenom X4 9750, a 125W beast that will be superseded later this quarter by a 45nm version of the chip. The new 9750 will only consume 95W. So say said industry sources, cited by a variety of Chinese-language websites.

The current 9750 is clocked at 2.4GHz, and contains 2MB of L2 cache and and 2MB of L3 cache. Its successor is said to contain 6MB of L3 and be clocked in the 2.4-2.7GHz range, which suggests to us it’ll have a model number somewhat higher than 9750.”

Yet in other news, AMD Phenom’s have reportedly hit a compatibility glitch.  Issues arise from the Phenom 9750 & 9850 125W models to work properly with the 780G chipset.  AMD just can’t seem to get a break.