November 13

AMD has officially launched its first ever 45nm ‘Shanghai’ Opteron processor for servers and workstations.

The Shanghai chips are designed using the 45nm technology using a new technique called “Immersion Lithography”. The chips come with a higher amount of cache amounting to  8MB and the core frequency rises up to 2.7GHZ from a 2.3GHZ base model. The chips feature an integrated memory controller supporting up to DDR2-800.

AMD is also expected to launch its 45nm “Deneb” desktop CPUs before the end of the year.

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