Recently, AMD announced its Shanghai server. To bask in the limelight of launch of new AMD chip, Dell, IBM, and Microway have announced its products supported on that.

The 45 nm based chip is first of its kind move and has brought AMD up to manufacturing parity with rival Intel.

Dell has introduced a total of eight PowerEdge blade, rack, and tower servers powered by Shanghai, and IBM unveiled two blades and two rack servers. Other vendors that have also released Shanghai-based products include Microway, which has brought new entry to its Navion server line and introduced a Shanghai-powered workstation.

Dell has launched three blades to PowerEdge line namely, the M905, M805, and M605; four rack servers, the R905, R805, 2970, and SC1435; and one tower server, the T605. The servers are available with two or four sockets.

For Shanghai, IBM has introduced two-socket BladeCenter LS22 and LS42. The BladeCenter LS42 is set for release this month with prices starting at $5,165. The System x3455 and x3755 are scheduled to be available with the new chip early next year. No date or pricing were released for the BladeCenter LS22.

Microway is offering its Navion-4X and Navion-8X servers with Shanghai. The server line is available with two, four, or eight processors and up to 128 GB of memory and eight drives in a 4u chassis. No pricings have been released yet.

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