Quote Originally Posted by Chad Boga View Post
Don't these sorts of products tend to show up 9 to 12 months after a demo like this?
Timeline:

45nm Shanghai first demo (just working CPUs, I don't think even load testing was involved): March 2008

Shanghai availability: Oct-Nov 2008 (We'll say Nov for convenience's sake)

Istanbul first demo, with load tests: Late Feb 09

Istanbul availability: At worst Q4 09, BUT this time AMD doesn't need to deal with a pesky process transition. Still I'm putting availability at early Q4, which is same as Shanghai.