AMD unveils ‘Shanghai’; Aims to better compete with Intel

Courtesy ZDNET - Between the Lines  Wed, 11/12/2008 - 11:01pm

AMD on Thursday will launch its “Shanghai” platform, its latest batch of Opteron server chips.

With Shanghai, AMD gets a do-over from its ill-fated Barcelona launch. At a high-level, Shanghai gives a 400 MHz speed gain in the same thermal band as Barcelona.

Shanghai also triples the cache on the chip to improve performance in database [...]


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