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Dodeca-core: The Megahertz Race is Now Officially the Multi-core Race |
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Written by Daniel
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Friday, 18 April 2008 |
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Dodeca-core: The Megahertz Race is Now Officially the Multi-core Race
Kristopher Kubicki (Blog) - April 17, 2008 6:51 PM
DailyTech AMD engineers reveal details about the company's upcoming 45nm processor roadmap, including plans for 12-core processors
"Shanghai! Shanghai!" the reporters cry during the AMD's financial analyst day today. Despite the fact that the company will lay off nearly 5% of its work force this week, followed by another 5% next month, most employees interviewed by DailyTech continue to convey an optimistic outlook.
The next major milestone for the CPU engineers comes late this year, with the debut of 45nm Shanghai. Shanghai, for all intents and purposes, is nearly identical to the B3 stepping of Socket 1207 Opteron (Barcelona) shipping today. However, where as Barcelona had its HyperTransport 3.0 clock generator fused off, Shanghai will once again attempt to get HT3.0 right. [Comments...]
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