AMD Barcelona on schedule for mid-2007

January 25th, 2007

“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…” (Read full article here)

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