AMD Says New 'Shanghai' Chip Is Ready To Go
C|Net has an article posted today on the subject of AMD’s announcement yesterday that the company is set to roll out its next-generation quad-core server processor code named "Shanghai." There is also a slide from AMD that shows a processor timeline from 2006 through 2011.
The No. 2 processor maker wants to make one thing crystal clear: Shanghai is not Barcelona. The latter chip was rolled out in September 2007 to great fanfare only to be delayed a whopping eight months (or more, depending how the delay is calculated) due to production glitches and bugs. The chip was also hampered by speed (core clock frequency) limitations. This gave Intel an opportunity to regain ground it had lost to AMD in the server chip market.