AMD on Monday will release its new chip or Microprocessor meant for Servers named “Shanghai“
With the release of this chip AMD would like to avoid the mistakes that it had made in the past while releasing the predecessor of AMD Shanghai, AMD “Barcelona” whose release was delayed due to production glitches and bugs by eight months.
The delay gave Intel a upper edge and gain control over the Server Market.
The General Manager of AMD’s Server and Workstation chip business Pat Patla said, “We had some mis-starts in getting Barcelona to market and wanted to bring as much velocity to Shanghai as possible. Learn from our mistakes and, as a company, never do that again.”
Shanghai is a Quad-core chip for Servers and is AMD’s first 45-nanometer processor. The earlier version Barcelona been 65-nanometer processor. Now the size help keeping the chip power requirement as low as possible plus giving faster the chip processing. Intel has been shipping out the 45-nanometer processor from 2007 and now its the most offered chip by them.
AMD said the New Processor is much faster and more power efficient and gives more (clock) frequency.
To speed up the performance AMD has increased the cache memory from 2 megabytes to 6 megabytes.
Also AMD is using the HT3 (HyperTransport 3) which is a high-speed communication link technology between silicon..
And the Next coming chip form the AMD will be AMD “Istanbul”, which is a six-core Processor and would be for Servers which have upto eight processor Sockets. And then it has plan to release AMD “Magny-Cours” and AMD “Sao Paulo”
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This post was written by Brad on October 5, 2008
