Will an eight-core AMD processor arrive in 2008?

AMD’s tumbling this year seems pretty awkward already, with only two things to pull out of this lows. The timely release of Barcelona’s core CPU or an interesting rumor about next year’s processors.

According to Fudzilla, up to an eight-core AMD processor could arrive in 2008. All that needs to do is for AMD to switch to 45-nanometer manufacturing. It is on this bandwidth that a core called Shanghai is created, which gets 6 MB of third-level cache. And what has this got to do with eight-core procis? So much so that Shanghai will have four cores, and the news is that AMD will follow the example of Intel and build two cores on a case, a miracle called Montreal. It doesn't matter that doubling will also double the third-level cache to 12 MB.

The only question (irrespective of all the irony) is how AMD will be able to change manufacturing technology at this rate, and when the output from the 45-nanometer chips will be such that they can launch processor families.