By Scott Ferguson 01-26- 2009
Advanced Micro Devices is expanding its line of 45-nanometer processors to include five new energy-efficient models and a pair of high-performance chips running at 2.8GHz. AMD plans to officially announce the seven new Opteron processors Jan. 26, although these models have been shipping to the company’s OEM partners and customers since the beginning of the month. The seven processors help expand AMD’s line of 45-nm Opteron processors that the company first introduced in November under the code name “Shanghai.” These Opteron processors feature four processing cores and 6MB of Level 3 cache that all four cores share; all four cores also each have 512KB of dedicated L2 cache. The new Opterons come at time when AMD and Intel have watched enterprises and midmarket businesses cut back on their purchases of hardware, especially PCs and server systems, as the United States deals with a recession that picked up steam in September, especially within the financial and banking communities.
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