The new 45nm chip runs at 75 watts. The chip maker plans to follow up with 55W and 105W processors during the first quarter of 2009. The quad-core Shanghai processor achieves a 35 percent increase in power efficiency and performance. Advanced Micro Devices Inc on Tuesday said its first 45-nanometer processors are in production. AMD plans to ship them to store shelves before the end of the year. The new AMD processor is code named Shanghai.

AMD Ready to Ship First Quad 45nm Chips

By John Lester
Oct 1, 2008 19:11 PM GMT
The new 45nm chip runs at 75 watts. The chip maker plans to follow up with 55W and 105W processors during the first quarter of 2009. The quad-core Shanghai processor achieves a 35 percent increase in power efficiency and performance.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc on Tuesday said its first 45-nanometer processors are in production. AMD plans to ship them to store shelves before the end of the year. The new AMD processor is code named Shanghai.

Advanced Micro Devices said it will be ready to ship its first Quad 45-nanometer processors by the fourth quarter of this year. The announcement was made on Tuesday.

AMD said it will first roll out 75-watt server parts code named Shanghai. The company will follow up with 55W and 105W AMD chips in the first quarter of 2009.

The new AMD processor, which features a quad-core, will achieve a 35 percent increase in power efficiency and performance. The company said recent tests were done clock-for-clock over its current 65nm generation of quad-core chips. The current generation is code named Barcelona.

"Picking up from Barcelona's launch, internally, starting back in January, we really took a look from an engineering perspective at how do we learn from the Barcelona missteps and really instill confidence in Shanghai, our 45nm product," said AMD's new Server and Workstation Division GM Pat Patla.

Patla said AMD had reviewed its engineering processes ahead of the Shanghai validation process in an effort to avoid silicon glitches. The glitches were a problem on its Barcelona and Pheom chips during the first half of 2008.

The news of the launch news moves the planned scheduled shipment for Shanghai from first quarter 2009 to fourth quarter 2008.

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The new 45nm chip runs at 75 watts. The chip maker plans to follow up with 55W and 105W processors during the first quarter of 2009. The quad-core Shanghai processor achieves a 35 percent increase in power efficiency and performance.