Make the shrink to 45nm manufacturing processes for its processors Phenom is obviously going to be an important initiative for AMD. Intel already succeeded this tour way back in November with Penryn, so some catching up is needed. Fortunately for fans of AMD, which has just been revealed 45nm roadmap indicates that its engineers still have a few plans to eliminate his rival.

From code, as some of you may already know, Shanghai; AMD’s 45nm CPU is essentially identical to a base Phenom (not just Intel can use a tick-tock strategy), but with some improvements. Shanghai will also bring with it a native 6 processor cores, obviously aimed squarely at Intel recently announced Dunnington 6-core chip.

And that’s not all, however, come early next year AMD will abandon the native x-core designs for the lead after Intel and packaging two dies in a single package and the establishment a 12-processor core. As each matrix provides a dual-channel memory controller using a single base hypertransport could emulate four channels of support, by accessing the second death from the memory controller. A movement inspired by Nehalem three channel memory controller?

The problem with this roadmap is not truly believe that AMD will be a lot of opportunities to face off against Nehalem. The only real advantage that AMD has had since the introduction of the basic architecture, an integrated memory controller, will no longer be present. In addition, we already know that Nehalem will have 8-core CPU in its line-up and, taking into account Phemon quad-core performance is already lower than the offer from Intel, it seems unlikely that 12-core chips AMD will be able to compete with 8 - Core Nehalem. Here’s hoping AMD can get something out of the bag…