AMD "Shanghai" media briefing
In a briefing this morning in San Francisco, Patrick Patla, the new general manager of AMD’s server and workstation division, confirmed that the Silicon Valley company is already shipping the latest iteration of its Opteron server processor dubbed “Shanghai”. The “standard” Shanghai chip will be in OEM machines by year end, but the faster and more power efficient ones will ship in the first quarter of next year.
“It’s going to be 35% more power efficient than the current generation. It has more memory cache and a faster communications bus [HyperTransport version 3]“, explained Patla.
The fact that AMD is shipping Shanghai earlier also means that there will only be 6 months at most between the current generation of Opteron and the next one. That tells you how screwed up the Barcelona launch was, leaving AMD less than 6 months to recoup its investment versus the usual year or so.
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