Saturday, August 16th 2008
AMD Shanghai Rushed in, Hits Market in Q4 2008
AMD seems to have decided that it won't face any more flack in the computing industry owing to the lack of success the Barcelona / Agena (K10) architecture had compared to a determined Intel that seems to be going for the kill with a string of products lined up, Intel in fact has looked forward four years in time based on its IDF slides. On the eve of IDF, AMD executives said the company's 45-nanometer Shanghai processor will enter the market by the fourth quarter of 2008. The AMD processor is designed to compete against the Intel Nehalem processor, especially in the volume two-socket server market.
AMD Shanghai is touted to be the server/enterprise version of the upcoming Deneb series 45nm quad-core processors. Unlike the Deneb that retains the 940-pin AM2/AM2+/possible AM3 socket, Shanghai would use the enterprise segment Socket 1207, there already are server boards with four sockets in the market, AMD plans to use this as something to flash before Intel, as for server applications, cost-effective Shanghai parts used in four-CPU configurations should provide high levels of computational power.
Source:
eWeek
AMD Shanghai is touted to be the server/enterprise version of the upcoming Deneb series 45nm quad-core processors. Unlike the Deneb that retains the 940-pin AM2/AM2+/possible AM3 socket, Shanghai would use the enterprise segment Socket 1207, there already are server boards with four sockets in the market, AMD plans to use this as something to flash before Intel, as for server applications, cost-effective Shanghai parts used in four-CPU configurations should provide high levels of computational power.
68 Comments on AMD Shanghai Rushed in, Hits Market in Q4 2008
The one on the right. He's probably dead by now. Too late for AMD to patent.
The K7 (Athlon XP) failed badly (at one point) versus P4 (Willamette) which further evolved into Northwood and looked unbeatable at any price point. With the research that went into making Thoroughbred-B (at one point AMD did take the lead over Intel with the Athlon XP 2600+), on the parallel HyperTransport became a reality. The very first large-scale commercial implementation of HyperTransport was not by AMD in its processors (surprise!) but by NVIDIA in the nForce 2 series chipsets for AMD K7. NVIDIA used a 8-bit wide HT Link between the SPP and MCP that helped the feature-rich MCP-T southbridge.
Intel uses x-fire or sli to sell there useless motherboards, not as you suggest (Intel will get there own larabee very soon so that they can stop there support).
the only reason Intel might need amd to live is to copy there designs (opteron64 = nehalem) and that's it mate
what's monopoly got to do with competition and bankruptcy. so if amd dies from competition what's that got to do with Intel (DUH)