AMD says new 'Shanghai' chip is ready to go

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.

"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," said Pat Patla, general manager of AMD's server and workstation chip business.

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Shanghai: a quad-core product targeted at servers; will be AMD's first 45-nanometer processor. (Barcelona is 65-nanometer.) Typically, the smaller the geometries, the faster and more power efficient the chip. Intel has been shipping 45-nanometer processors since last year and these processors now make up most of Intel's offerings

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Patla asserted that Shanghai is a "very power efficient product" and will perform much better than Barcelona because the smaller 45-nanometer process yields "a lot more (clock) frequency."At the same frequency (speed), Shanghai will outperform Barcelona by about 20 percent, Patla said.

AMD is also boosting the size of the cache memory, which typically speeds performance, from 2 megabytes to 6 megabytes. Another speed improvement will come from increasing "instructions per clock," Patla said.
"We're also turning on HT3 (HyperTransport 3) and you'll see partners start to validate that in the Q1 time frame," Patla said. HyperTransport is a high-speed communication link technology between silicon.

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AMD says new 'Shanghai' chip is ready to go | Nanotech: The Circuits Blog - CNET News

Well, they have said a lot about outperforming Barcelona here in this interview. However they should be focusing more upon beating their opponents from the Intel's base. Let's see if AMD can pull it this time or not.

the new phenom FX if they ever do bring it out will be good, it can go up to 4ghz if clocked and cooled properly.

well amd is lagging behind intel. hope they catch up w them w this pro

well atm AMD are winning in graphics cards, they are cheaper than the top line Nvidia and also out perform them

And in the PCU world intel may be #1 with the top chips
but if you want a midrange AMD has same speed for alot
better price

Very interested to see where AMD will be going in the next year or two... Hopefully make a good come back....

Not an AMD hater by any means, when they release the 64 chip it tore Intel apart but recently theyre in the same position as Intel was with the P4, they need to increase the performance of their chips and beat intel seriously before we all migrate back over and withe the release of Nehelam chips around the corner this seems unlikely for the next few years, good luck to them though, competition is necessary for the market to progress