Today AMD announced officially the successor of “Barcelona” quad-core Opteron processor, which listens to the code name Shanghai. This server chip to beat one until 35% a up to 35 percent faster offer lower power consumption – systems first test pattern for 2- and 4-way is good and can convince in SPECpower.

A very interesting background information can be found in the official press release for Shanghai. Something hidden, it states that the Phenom II’s successor, and thus the desktop counterpart to the Shanghai, in the first quarter of 2009 the world will see. This is even less a secret, but AMD to introduce at the same time a new platform, which summarizes the processor, motherboard and graphics card.

The successor of the Spider platform bears the code name “Dragon” and is composed of a the famous 700 generation, a Radeon HD 4000 graphics chipset, as well as one – note, be careful! -AMD “Phenom II X 4 quad-core” processor together. For the Deneb core, has it come so up with a new name and would like to have the somewhat unfortunate Phenom processor in thoughts behind it. The naming scheme that is traded in the rumor mill for Deneb could turn out to be wrong.