"Our 45-nanometer technology bring up is on track. So, as I said that earlier, we are expecting to be enabling our customer by the end of this year, so no change there. But I have also talked in the past that from the industry adoption and ramp standpoint, we should all see any meaningful volume until probably in early part of mid 2009, which roughly kind of worked out to be about two years after the start of production for 65, which is kind of pretty typical. So, like I said, we are sparing no efforts to make sure that we continue to expand our customer engagement there to make sure that we are well positioned. I will not have... and specifically on the SOI, we do not see any change in terms of the timing as well. It's going to be around that kind of timeframe in late first half of 2009 production. "

"This would be the third quarter in a row that we are seeing decline in business from the customer," Chia Song Hwee, CEO of Chartered told Reuters, referring to AMD which orders microchips for its computer processors from the Singapore-based foundry.