INTEL & AMD battle with new chips

Intel
Penryn processor chip
45nm improved core-two quad
Supports servers, workstations & high-end desktops

Twice the floating point performance, faster virtual
environment switching & memory access speed up &
faster clocks at 3.33 GHz
6 M L2 Cache
starts with 2: socket version in 2007 third quarter &
4-socket version by May 2008

Nehalem processor chip
45nm technology, up to 8 cores on a single die
On-die memory controller
GPU integrated on to the actual die along with
the general purpose CPU cores


AMD
Barcelona processor chip
65nm quad-core single die
Supports servers & work station planned for 4 socket server later

Twice the floating point throughput, faster memory controller &
DDR2 support, faster hyper transport link & 2.5 GHz clock speed

512 kB L2 Cache & 2 M L3 memory/switch
Launch in October with 2-socket version, four socket version in
first quarter 2008 and mobile 4-core, 45nm in 2009

Shanghai processor chip
45nm technology, dual dies total 8 cores
Dedicated hyper transport 3 link
CPU/GPU fusion product