Advanced Micro Devices on Friday confirmed it had begun shipments of its highly-anticipated quad-core server microprocessors in August. The claim means that after all the delays and set-backs with the new micro-architecture and the world’s first monolithic quad-core x86 chip, the chipmaker is on track to formally release the chips in early September.
“AMD can confirm that Barcelona has been shipping for revenue in August,” said Phil Hughes, an AMD’s spokesperson for server and workstation products.
Mr. Hughes declined to comment on clock-speeds or other specifications of the shipping products and also remained tight-lipped regarding volumes or demand for the new central processing units that, according to AMD’s chief executive, faced six months delay. Revenue shipments of anticipated quad-core product may help AMD to improve its financial results for the third quarter, as novelties are usually sold at much higher margins than existing products.
AMD quad-core microprocessor die
Quad-core AMD Opteron processors code-named Barcelona are based on the company’s next-generation micro-architecture and will be produced using 65nm process technology. Among the highlights of AMD’s new chips the manufacturer lists shared 2MB L3 cache, 128-bit floating point units (FPU), SSE4A instructions, support for dual-channel DDR2 memory and other innovations.
The code-named Barcelona processor will be the first x86 chip that contains four processing engines on one piece of silicon. Currently available quad-core Intel Xeon chips integrate two dual-core chips on one piece of substrate, which gives the manufacturer some additional flexibility, but offers slightly reduced performance compared to monolithic design.
AMD is expected to host official introduction of its quad-core AMD Opteron processors on the 10th of September. Initially AMD will offer quad-core microprocessors with reduced power consumption and clock-speed, but later in the year the chipmaker promised to release new versions of the quad-core Opteron with higher operating frequencies.
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Intel will not respond in kind.
[Posted by: Mr. BonBon | Date: 08/31/07 12:25:59 PM]
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I would advise you to quit eating out of Intel's ass.
[Posted by: Lion of Zion | Date: 08/31/07 10:48:57 PM]
lol
[Posted by: nuff | Date: 09/01/07 09:34:40 AM]
lolz
[Posted by: li | Date: 09/02/07 05:19:28 AM]
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Very good news!
AMD will do great it seams that as soon they clock it higher than 2.4Ghz the CPU just flies!
[Posted by: dorado | Date: 08/31/07 03:39:16 PM]
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I wish good luck to AMD.
[Posted by: RW | Date: 08/31/07 05:26:11 PM]
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3.0 Gig. clock by years end and a world of hurtin for Intel.
[Posted by: Jorge | Date: 08/31/07 08:09:09 PM]
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hah! in your dreams! with AMD's track record.. it will be like 3-4 yrs before they reach 3.0GHz
much like the product cycle for K8... it took them forever to reach such speeds!
[Posted by: dudde | Date: 08/31/07 10:36:29 PM]
First off, K8 was not initially designed for 3GHz speeds in single or dual-core. Reaching this and beyond is only a testament, especially on 90nm. Intel never had an effecient part at that die size reach 3GHz or beyond, they had to do a die-shrink as they have to do everytime to try to hold a lead. FAB's are expensive, and it seems they do more retooling than anything. They did have the Pentium 4 hit those speeds, but those aren't an effecient part.
[Posted by: PorscheRacer14 | Date: 09/01/07 04:06:02 AM]
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Finally! I can't wait to get my hands of some reviews. They will not be very conclusive, we need to wait for the higher clocked parts to reach a verdict but at least it will give us a general idea on Barcelona's potential.
[Posted by: fastpunk | Date: 09/01/07 10:15:05 AM]
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Sorry! I meant "on some reviews".
[Posted by: fastpunk | Date: 09/01/07 10:16:39 AM]
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Sick! Finally some new processors coming our way.
[Posted by: Disophisis | Date: 09/03/07 07:50:20 AM]
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"Currently available quad-core Intel Xeon chips integrate two dual-core chips on one piece of substrate, which gives the manufacturer some additional flexibility, but offers slightly reduced performance compared to monolithic design."
Finally, we'll see if Native Quad was worth the year long stall, lost operational revenue and 11 billion dollar loss in investor wealth.
It's about time AMD. Is this what we can expect from the company?
We'll see how Phenom turns out, as the part being shipped now will not be in anyones personal hands.
[Posted by: Frags | Date: 09/04/07 06:17:07 PM]
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