Shanghai launch: Less power, up to 2.7GHz

Giuseppe Amato, AMD’s Technical director of sales and marketing EMEA, and Leslie Sobon, Vice President of Product Marketing, have talked with us about Shanghai, AMD's first 45nm CPU and this processor is finally out and about.

The CPU is shipping and works from 2.4GHz to 2.7GHz, while the faster parts should be expected in 2009. AMD promises 400MHz faster frequency at the same TDP (ACP - Average CPU power) and all the SKUs they launched are 75W parts.

Shanghai has four cores where each has 512KB cache and they all talk to 6MB of shared L3 cache. In reality, Nehalem looks pretty much like Shanghai K10.5 45nm quad-core with an exception that Nehalem has hyper threading, something that AMD misses on its products.

Strato, the second largest data center in Germany, is happy to go for Shanghai but these guys like the power-saving CPUs rather than the fast ones. They have expressed their happiness that AMD has a quad-core 45nm ready.  

It looks we were right all along when we wrote about Shanghai back in April 2007.

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