OSTG Marketing's Journal: AMD readies second-generation quad-core Opteron

AMD will release the second-generation quad-core Opteron, 'Shanghai' early in 2008. Shanghai is enhanced version of its recently demo'd 'Barcelona' quad-core Opteron processor family. "AMD reckons DDR 2 will do the job for the foreseeable future - out into early 2009, on the basis of the roadmap. Just as current Opteron 1xxx, 2xxx and 8xxx CPUs use DDR 2, so too will Barcelona and 'Budapest', the future quad-core Opteron for single-processor systems. Barcelona and Budapest should appear mid way through 2007. The Budapest product marks part of AMD's big shift to HyperTransport 3, an event that's a defining point here and in its desktop and mobile roadmaps."