
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will today release its next-generation Opteron quad-core chip, code-named Shanghai, ahead of schedule as it moves to shift attention from its ill-fated Barcelona chip to this smaller and faster device.
The new 45nm Opteron chip’s release is getting a quick endorsement from IBM, which said today that it is producing four servers with AMD’s chip for use in high-performance applications, virtualization and collaboration environments, and big databases…
