At the present moment, Intel is roughly 6 months ahead of AMD in terms of die size. Earlier this year Intel made the migration from a 90nm to a 65nm design and enjoyed phenomenal success from their decision. Intel has been turning up the heat on AMD since the release of their Core 2 processors and has forced AMD to aggressively try to catch up.

AMD, which currently holds a 20% market share of the computer processor market, has today announced their “Brisbane” 65nm processors. Hoping to increase their marketshare to 30% by the end of 2008, AMD has launched 4 “Brisbane” core processors.

The hardest task for AMD will be stay caught up with Intel technology. Intel, which is a much larger company, currently spends around 5 times as much as AMD does on its design and manufacturing. Intel has already promised 45nm chips due to be debut in 2007 whereas AMD has kept a vow of silence regarding their own 45nm chip release date.