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AMD Barcelona on schedule for mid-2007

Firm claims 40 per cent performance boost over Intel

By Paul Hales: Thursday 25 January 2007, 16:30

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Search for a job: AMD IS OUT banging the drum about its four-core Barcelona chippery, claiming it will blow Intel's rival Cloverton out of the water by being about 40 per cent faster.
According to Pat Patla, director of AMD's server worksation division, Barcelona is a new processor design, 90 per cent of which is brand new. He reckons it will make AMD the first firm to deliver a native quad-core X86 chip and its introduction will be as "substantial" as that of the original Opteron in 2003.

www.theinquirer.net/de...icle=37212

I wonder will this processor use the AM2 940 socket?

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Adrian Wainer

Shades · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:52 pm Post subject: Re: AMD back in the game?

Shadow_Bshwackr · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject: Re: AMD back in the game?

Thanks for the Heads Up Shades! Wink

Shades · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:28 am Post subject: AMD back in the game?

AMD WASN'T JOKING about Barcelona hitting Q2. I didn't believe it until a solid source came out and said the volume ramp is starting 'really soon'.
If really soon is defined as the end of the month, and you add in the 10-12 weeks it takes from shiny silicon pizzas in to pin laden chunks out, that would mean parts are available at the beginning of May.

It would not surprise me if it is trading yield out for time to market, so let's add a month before they are really available. That puts things at early June for volume, or when AMD said it would have it out. Minor miracles do happen.

What it is
This is the new 'Barcelona' chip amd hope will be their new flagship and be up there competing with Intel's dual cores.
Haven't seen any performance data yet but the skinny is that they will only compete at Intel's current level.
I also hear that Intel have been holding back some faster processors waiting to see what amd came back with. HOWEVER, nVidia and ATi press dept.'s used to say the same things and it was always just talk.
We wait to see what the reality is.

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