These processors have first appeared in AMD product catalogue three weeks ago, but only yesterday they were officially launched into the world. The semiconductor giant announced that they begin shipping Opteron 2222 SE and Opteron 8222 SE.

I would like to remind you that these are dual-core 90nm processors working at 3.0GHz frequency, featuring 2MB cache and 119.2W TDP. The chips are designed for Socket 1207 form-factor and support new Registered DDR2 memory. Unlike these two guys, the Opteron 1222 SE processor also mentioned in AMD’s price-list is designed for Socket AM2, supports regular DDR2 SDRAM and features 125W TDP.

The price for the new Opteron 1222 SE / 2222 SE / 8222 SE processors (in 1000-unit quantities) is claimed to be $655, $873 and $2149 respectively.

New server processors, however, were not the only topic of the recent AMD press release. The company has also shared the results of their tests indicating that quad-core Barcelona CPUs work about 50% faster in floating-point operations than the corresponding competitor’s solutions (Intel quad-core server processors).