AMD and 45nm - here at last.

[S. Starbuck]

"AMD has been stuck on the 65nm boat for a while now, and its current chips are now looking pretty crusty when you consider that Intel’s 45nm Xeon CPUs were doing the rounds at the end of last year. However, the wait for AMD’s next-gen CPUs is finally over. The company has now officially launched its first 45nm ‘Shanghai’ Opteron chips for servers and workstations, which may well give us a glimpse of what we can expect from its forthcoming desktop CPUs, codenamed 'Deneb'."

http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/60517...45nm-cpus.html

And the press release:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/V...129135,00.html

Also, from the same site:

"After cycling through various Athlon monikers, not to mention the Phenom brand, AMD has now announced that it’s going back to the age-old sequel-naming tradition with its 45nm quad-core Phenom ‘Deneb’ chips, which will be called Phenom II X4."

http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/60518...-unveiled.html