Posted 10/31/08 at 04:28:32 PM by Andy Salisbury

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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Posted 10/01/08 at 03:33:12 PM by Pulkit Chandna

Barcelona might have been a sullen nightmare for AMD but it seems to have moved on. It has now pinned its hopes on Shanghai, a quad-core processor for the server market, which happens to be its first processor to be synthesized on a 45-nanometer process.

The company has begun shipping Shanghai to its OEM partners. Shanghai will be launched ahead of time, before the end of this year, unlike Barcelona that was plagued by delays.

Pat Patla, general manger of AMD’s server and workstation division, candidly admitted to having learnt a lot from the blunder that was Barcelona. The chip is claimed to be 20% more efficient than Barcelona. AMD has increased the cache memory from 2MB to 6MB. A six-core processor from the AMD stable will be launched in Q4 2009.

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Posted 11/16/07 at 12:58:34 PM by Tom Halfhill

AMD needs to recover, for the sake of the industry's future.

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Posted 09/19/07 at 04:33:19 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

As Intel details new Nehalem and Penryn CPUs, AMD shoots back with tri-core CPUs. We wonder if FASN8 will survive?

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Posted 05/18/07 at 05:12:25 PM by Maximum PC Staff

This week, the gang celebrates Gordon's return by talking about ATI's R600, AMD's new CPU, AACS key cracking, and more! Plus, the return of the rant

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Posted 03/03/07 at 12:15:46 AM by Maximum PC Staff

This week, we celebrate Jeremy's return (and the birth of his first son) with an all Maximum PC podcast.

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