Chartered Preps to Manufacture 45nm Microprocessors for AMD

As Advanced Micro Devices is getting ready to start pilot production ramp of its 45nm process technology, its “flexible” manufacturing partner Chartered Semiconductor claims that it would be ready with its 45nm process technology late this year. The contract maker claims that it expects to produce 45nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) chips by mid-2009, just a little later compared to AMD itself.