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AMD's 45nm Opterons Scheduled for 2008
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Posted by Donster on: 2007-02-05 14:48:08 440
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AMD's internal guidance suggests the company isn't very far from 45nm at all
By Kristopher Kubicki @ DailyTech
Late last year, AMD executives alluded to a 45nm successor to the Barcelona core, dubbed Shanghai. AMD's Senior Vice President, Marty Seyer, claimed Shanghai would specifically "bring further performance enhancements, as well as cache efficiency."
Shanghai is apparently more than just a cache-bump. AMD's documentation explicitly claims Shanghai will be the company's first 45nm processor. However, with a die shrink additional cache is one of the immediate architecture options as the smaller node allows for more transistors to fit on the chip die. Shanghai features 6MB of L3 cache.
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