AMD Octo-Core

[K404]

Eight cores on 45 nanometres

After the Barcelona K10 design scheduled for 2007 AMD plans to reveal a new chip codenamed Shanghai in 2008. The new chip will have improved K10 marchitecture, more L3 cache memory and faster clock speeds. It is scheduled for the first part of 2008.

One of the key things is that it will be made in 45 nanometre marchitecture and this will enable AMD to go eight core on the same socket. The first reports claim that the eight core won't be a native design, but rather two 45 nanometre chips on the same socket.

So there might be some hope for AMD shareholders after all.

Link: http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=480&Itemid=1

My input:

AMD have swallowed their pride to aim at being first with an octo.

People dont care how the cores get into their computer, so Intel have generally been there first, but their chances of being first with an Octo are slim coz they dont have a native Quad, so AMD are in a position to take back some much needed ground.

Goes back and forth, the way it should

 

[killeroverload]

I really hope AMD manage to pull this off, will really help them get back into the competition.

On a sidenote, untill multiple core support is more widely used this is not actually going to be a great deal of use to the general public, although alot should have changed for the better in this area by the time the processor is actually released.

 

[maverik-sg1]

I really hope AMD manage to pull this off, will really help them get back into the competition.

On a sidenote, untill multiple core support is more widely used this is not actually going to be a great deal of use to the general public, although alot should have changed for the better in this area by the time the processor is actually released.

Agreed on both counts - of course that's assuming that all the improvements still make it really fast (read as fastest) on just one of the 8 cores