AMD says new ‘Shanghai’ chip is ready to go
AMD said Monday it is set to roll out its next-generation “Shanghai” chip–minus the mistakes of the last generation. The No. 2 processor maker wants to make one thing crystal clear: Shanghai is not Barcelona. The latter chip was rolled out in September 2007 to great fanfare only to be delayed a whopping eight months (or more, depending how the delay is calculated) due to production glitches and bugs. The chip was also hampered by speed (core clock frequency) limitations. This gave Intel an opportunity to regain ground it had lost to AMD in the server chip market.
Shanghai will be followed by a 45-nanometer desktop processor code-named Deneb, which is due to launch in the fourth quarter of this year or first quarter of 2009, AMD said. In the fourth quarter of 2009, AMD will add a six-core processor. “We’ll take what we’ve learned from our 45-nanometer process and Shanghai core and bring out an Istanbul six-core product,” Patla said. Like Shanghai, this will be targeted at servers with up to eight processor sockets.
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