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Today, x64 chip maker Advanced Micro Devices will launch its "Shanghai" quad-core Opteron processors for servers and workstations, concurrent with its annual financial analyst day meeting and ahead of schedule by AMD's reckoning. The new chip - which offers more computing power, less heat dissipation, and better bang for the …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Lets hope AMD survives the downturn

    Otherwise Intel will have the x86 market to itself and that'll probably be it as far as innovation goes - at least until another large competitor comes along.

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  2. bo diddley

    512 MB of L2 cache memory?

    wow I gotta get me one of those :)

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  3. Daniel

    typo

    Small typo: "Each Shanghai core has 512 MB of L2" => 512 KB

    (Sorted - Ed)

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  5. Flocke Kroes Silver badge

    @boltar

    If AMD does have problems, their FAB's will not be idle. 90nm MIPS and ARM SoC's compete with current Atom CPU's. 45 and 32nm versions will give Intel a run for their money.

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  6. Rex Alfie Lee
    IT Angle

    Comparisons with Intel's processor

    Anyone have any info comparing Intel's procs with those on the article?

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