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Race fans, fire up your wallets! AMD’s first 45nm chip, the Shanghai quad-core has finally made its appearance at online resellers.
These bad boys aren’t cheap, either. The quad-core 2.7GHz chip will run potential buyers $2,499 over at PC Connection and $2,240 (for the chip without any fan) over at Buy.com. And these prices are pretty standard all the way across the board.
Admittedly, expectations might be low for these chips considering the debacle caused by the massive delays of Barcelona due to the production issues. Still, AMD’s hopes remain high. Shanghai is currently in full production, and supposed to have a 20 percent performance boost over Barcelona. There have also been confirmations from the likes of Sun Microsystems for plans to offer the chip in current x64 platforms that are running Barcelona by as early as Q1 2009.
While these chips do offer surprisingly low power consumption for a quad core chip (only 75 watts) and some burly clock speeds, the prices are pretty difficult to swallow. Although, to be fair, they’re meant for servers… or badasses.
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Keith E. Whisman
November 03, 2008 at 8:40am
Even considering this Chip would be the same as considering a Mac computer... Just retarded. AMD is I believe fatally trying to compete with Intel matching their prices.. I think that buyers will get the Intel CPU over an equally priced AMD processor but if that AMD cpu were a little cheaper than an Intel CPU then things maybe different. AMD is making a big mistake right now and I only hope that it doesn't prove fatal.
AMD just doesn't have the street cred to compete with Intel at price matching.. They need to sell cheaper than Intel until they can outperform Intel parts. They need to rebuild their street cred....
Sovereign
November 01, 2008 at 10:53am
There are possible alternatives for Intel's quads performance-wise now? Of course we're not talking price, Q6600 can be had for $180 if you know where to look. Hopefully a performance WIN, but certainly a price FAIL.
nekollx
November 01, 2008 at 2:57pm
actaull ythe price is a lot closer to the the new 45 nm Core i7 intel chips.
comparingthis to a Quad Duo is like comparing a Phenom to a Celeron
