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AMD Launches First 45nm Shanghai CPUs 264

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the steady-progress dept.
arcticstoat writes "The wait for AMD's next-gen CPUs is finally over, as the company has now officially launched its first 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteron chips for servers and workstations. 'AMD's move to a 45nm process relies on immersion lithography, where a refractive fluid fills the gap between the lens and the wafer, which AMD says will result in 'dramatic performance and performance-per-watt gains.' It's also enabled AMD to increase the maximum clock speed of the Opterons from 2.3GHz with the Barcelona core to 2.7GHz with the Shanghai core. Shanghai chips also feature more cache than their predecessors, with 6MB of Level 3 cache bumping the total up to 8MB, and the chips share the same cache architecture as Barcelona CPUs, with a shared pool of Level 3 cache and an individual allocation of Level 2 cache for each core.'"
Media

Submission + - Warner Bros backs BluRay, format war will soon end (latimes.com)

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crayz
crayz writes: "The NY Times reports that Warner Brothers will discontinue releases on HD-DVD starting this May, becoming another Blu-ray only studio. The LA Times also has a helpful graphic depicting the new breakdown of studio support, and HD-DVD is losing badly. With Blu-Ray also consistently selling twice the volume of discs, and holding a dramatic lead in purchased devices(mainly due to PS3), is there any doubt as to the eventual winner of this format war?"
Sony

Submission + - Warner Bros. backs Blu-ray

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Charles Dodgeson
Charles Dodgeson writes: "The New York Times is reporting that after being courted by both Toshiba for HD-DVD and Sony for Blu-ray, Warner Brothers will move exclusively to Blu-ray for high definition releases at the end of May. Combined with speculation that Apple will go with Blue-ray, it is looking like we're reaching the tipping point and the format wars will come to a resolution."
Television

Submission + - Is the HD DVD Format Dead?

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Reservoir Hill
Reservoir Hill writes: "Warner Brothers announced that it will release high-definition DVDs exclusively in Sony's Blu-ray format, dealing a big blow to Toshiba's rival HD DVD technology. Warner Brothers is Hollywood's biggest seller of DVDs, representing about 18 to 20 percent of sales in the United States and was one of the few studios backing both formats. "A two-format landscape has led to consumer confusion and indifference toward high definition, which has kept the technology from reaching mass adoption and becoming the important revenue stream that it can be for the industry," said Kevin Tsujihara, President of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group. Saul Hansell at the NY Times says he wouldn't spend money on an HD DVD player until this all sorts out and expects many consumers to return their Christmas HD DVD players and exchange them for Blu-ray devices."
Television

Submission + - Did Warner Brothers Just Kill HD DVD? (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The NY Times reports: In addition to Apple, Warner Brothers is now going to throw its weight behind the Blu-ray format for high-definition disks. Warner has been the only major studio to publish its movies in both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. Today, the studio announced that from now on, it would only issue movies in Blu-ray. Richard Greenfield, the media analyst with Pali Research, wrote that this marks the end of the format wars: "We expect HD DVD to 'die' a quick death."
Media

Submission + - Warner Studios Moves to Blu-ray Exclusively (blogspot.com)

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gaanagaa
gaanagaa writes: "The battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD has gotten more intense or may even be in the end-game. Today, Warner Studios announced that they are dropping HD DVD and will be only pressing Blu-ray discs. This is a big deal because Warner has a huge catalog of content. It is the fifth studio to back Blu-ray, developed by Sony Corp. Only two support the HD DVD format, developed by Toshiba Corp."
Movies

Submission + - Warner Brothers dropping support for HD DVD (reuters.com)

Submitted by BrerBear
BrerBear writes: The high definition format war may finally be over. Warner Bros., the only major studio which has still released on both the Blu-ray and HD DVD formats, is dropping its support for HD DVD within the first half of the year. Says Warner Bros Chairman and Chief Executive Barry Meyer, "The window of opportunity for high-definition DVD could be missed if format confusion continues to linger. We believe that exclusively distributing in Blu-ray will further the potential for mass market success and ultimately benefit retailers, producers, and most importantly, consumers." Sad that many Christmas HD DVD buyers may be getting the news only now.
Movies

Submission + - Warner Brothers to Drop HDDVD, go Bluray Exclusive

Submitted by firestorm980
firestorm980 writes: The site hidefdigest.com has gotten hold of a press release from studio Warner Brothers that was given today. In it, details of the WB's plans to drop the high def format HDDVD later this year and go exclusively Bluray. According to the release:

"Warner Bros.' move to exclusively release in the Blu-ray disc format is a strategic decision focused on the long term and the most direct way to give consumers what they want," said Meyer (CEO of WB). "The window of opportunity for high-definition DVD could be missed if format confusion continues to linger. We believe that exclusively distributing in Blu-ray will further the potential for mass market success and ultimately benefit retailers, producers, and most importantly, consumers."

The full article can be found here. The full move doesn't take place until later this year, but it should be interesting to see what effect this has on the format war.
Movies

Submission + - Warner Bros backs Blu-ray Disc Exclusively (computerworld.com)

Submitted by
Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: "After backing both high-def formats, Warner Bros has just announced it will be dropping HD DVD in May and putting its weight exclusively behind Blu-ray Disc, in what will no doubt be an enormous blow to Toshiba-backed HD DVD. The change of heart by Hollywood's biggest seller of DVDs apparently came after it decided the format war is confusing to consumers and a stumbling block for a potential multibillion-dollar industry."

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