News AMD's Shanghai chips appearing at resellers

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/10/30/amds-shanghai-chips-appearing-at-resellers/1

AMD's quad-core 45-nanometre 'Shanghai'-based Opteron processors have started surfacing on reseller's websites ahead of the official launch on 13th of November.

 

Well it all depends how Nehalem does in the marketplace, really. The new Shanghai AMDs might be a quantum leap over Barcelona, but how they square up to Nehalem will be the real challenge.

Personally, I'm hoping AMD do well in this cycle - nothing like solid competition to push things forward

 

Well at the rate Nahalem is going and I mean in a negative fashion with its recent issues and so forth, this could be very promising and I too hope that AMD comes out on top, ya ya I know intel fans but honestly it would be a good thing believe me if AMD was to win this round over Intel, it will help in many things even you Intel fans will benny from it.

 

That die shot is a 90nm dual-core, not Barcelona.

 

I think you're being confused by the large cache.
That's 6mb of L3 at the bottom, if you look above that you will see the 4 cores.

AMD should get a good kickstart with this as intel seem to be taking a long time coming up with a 4s solution. That should give Shanghai a 12 month lead in.

 

The new Denebs are 45nm at 3.00Ghz goodness. Should be interesting.

 

That`s definetely a (pretty old) dualcore...looked at it for way too long ;-)

Well, let`s hope it compares well to the Xeon-range in Performance-per-Watt.
This is where AMD makes money, not with our gaming processors ;-)