Barcelona processors are already announced, the first impression about their advantages in comparison with predecessors was already published in our site. We already talked about the advantages, which will bring 45 nm intel processors generation penryn. The first generation representatives wll be announced in the server segment already in first half of November.
In the middle of 2008 AMD plan to present 45 nm shanghai processors , which will become the improved barcelona version . Besides some changes at the core level and built-in processor north bridge, they will get up to 6 mb cache in the third level.
Associates assert that shanghai processors will ensure performance increase by 15% in comparison with Barcelona. But let us recall that To barcelona processors they also assigned a phenomenal speed progress , but its average value came out completely moderate.