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Summing up Shanghai: AMD's 45nm server CPU four months later
Summing up Shanghai: AMD's 45nm server CPU four months later
For a product whose success determines whether AMD lives or dies, there's been surprisingly little said about Shanghai of late. Granted, there has been no shortage of semiconductor news, economic blues, various lawsuits, and the company's self-division to occupy the digital ...
AMD Readying 'very Low-power' Shanghai Processors
pcworld.com — Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it would release "very low-power" Shanghai processors within three months, a... move that could intensify its ongoing chip battle with rival Intel. The new quad-core Opteron EE chips will deliver similar performance ... (more) AMD Readying 'very Low-power' Shanghai Processors
AMD demos live machine migration across three CPU generations
AMD demos live machine migration across three CPU generations
tgdaily.com — The journey from Barcelona to Shanghai to Istanbul is 11,057 miles as the crow flies. Still, AMD... has recently demoed a video showing that the migration across these three destinations takes only a few seconds. (more) AMD demos live machine migration across three CPU ...
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Shanghai 120 Days Later
AMDZone Frontpage — Ars Technica discusses AMD's Shanghai 4 months later. You can find prices on them here. It's been a few months since AMD's Shanghai processors launched, so how are they doing in the market? Even more important than that is whether or not Shanghai can hold the line against Intel's upcoming Nehalem-EP. AMD's new chips are good, there's no doubt of that—but are they good enough?

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