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Advanced Micro Devices’ new 45-nanometer quad-core Opteron processor, codenamed ‘Shanghai’ has been developed across the Sunnyvale-based company’s centres of excellence in the US and India. “The Indian and US design centres jointly designed and delivered key sections of the Shanghai platform,” Dasaradha Gude, managing director — Computing, AMD India, said at the India launch of the new processor in Bangalore on Thursday.
‘Shanghai’, which AMD says, delivers strong virtualization performance, live migration capability and up to 40 percent increase in virtualisation performance, is being launched at least seven months ahead of schedule. “There is a 35 percent increase in power consumption at idling rates,” Gude added.
The processor was scheduled for a mid-2009 launch, but increased demand from enterprise and SMB customers globally and in India has evidently lead to development work on the processor being speeded up.
AMD claimed that global OEMs were expected to immediately offer enterprise and SMB customers more than 25 Shanghai-based systems by the end of the year.
“In concert with our OEM and solution provider partners, AMD is addressing the need for enterprises to focus on their bottomline while giving them the innovations they need to build for the future. The enhanced AMD Opteron processor represents the most dramatic performance and performance-per-watt increases for AMD products since the introduction of the world’s first x86 dual-core processors by AMD nearly four years ago,” Gude said.
‘Shanghai’ features 200 percent increase in Level 3 cache size to 6 MB to help speed memory-intensive applications like virtualization, database and Java.
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