AMD talks Shanghai performance, features, roadmap to 2010

Unsurprisingly, AMD's upcoming 45nm Shanghai processor was the unofficial star of the day. Barcelona, despite AMD's best efforts, simply isn't capable of scaling to the frequencies required to aggressively compete against Yorkfield-based Xeon processors, to say nothing of Intel's upcoming Nehalem architecture. To date, AMD's guidance on Shanghai's ramp has been strong; the company reiterated its plan to have its 45nm process technology in volume production by the end of 2008, with Shanghai processors presumably shipping very late in '08 or early in 2009.