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AMD Native quad-core Barcelona has landed!!

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AMD Opteron 64 Quad-core chips
Barcelona Qual Core Processor

On Monday, 10th Sep 2007, AMD officially launched the world’s most advanced x86 processor ever designed and manufactured, and the first native x86 quad-core microprocessor, Barcelona. The initial Barcelona quad-core Opteron products consist of 4 models: 8350 (75W, 2GHz), 8347 (75W, 1.9 GHz), 8347 HE (55W, 1.9GHz) and 8346 HE (55W, 1.8GHz). From the public news, the 2.5-GHz Barcelona product will be coming very soon (Ref). For more information on the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, please visit multicore.amd.com. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor pricing can be found at www.amd.com/pricing. A good review article by AnandTech could be found here. To gain more insight on the new Barcelona processor, you could also listen to the audio interview by EDN with Randy Allen, corporate vice president in charge of AMD’s server and workstation products division:

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We expect that in the coming weeks, there would be extensive performance benchmarking between AMD’s quad-core Opteron and Intel’s Xeon by various parties. So, let’s wait and see the verdict :) From the public news, AMD also plans to introduce dual-core and quad-core Phenom processors for PCs by year end. The Phenom processors would be using the new core architecture design similar to the Barcelona (Ref).

Below is a video in which Randy Allen (Corporate VP, Server and Workstation Division) discusses AMD’s superior quad-core processor architecture with the launch of the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor

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