AMD to crush AMD with 2.0GHz 'Barcelona'
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Hits stores in September Barcelona has arrived, sort of, and AMD is talking more about beating itself up than knocking Intel with the new chip.â¦
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After 'Barcelona', 'Shanghai' AMD will release 'Shanghai', an "enhanced" version of its recently demo'd 'Barcelona' quad-core Opteron processor family, early on in 2008, the chip maker revealed yesterday when it published a server roadmap that was also notable for the absence of FB-DIMM technology and, indeed, DDR 3.â¦
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Cheap as chips Yesterday, on the 6th September, AMD announced the launch of the latest member of its dual-core Athlon 64 X2 family however information about the 5200+ was limited to the tray price â US$403 per 1,000 â with no mention of the clock speed, TDP, cache, Socket and so on.â¦
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced delivery of its quad core processor, Barcelona.  It also said 15,000 Barcelona processors will be used in one of the world's largest supercomputers now being built at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
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At a conference this week, AMD will present more details about how its Barcelona line improves performance and energy efficiency over the competition.
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If you pay, you can fill our slot AMD has expanded its friends and family program in an obvious way by allowing partners to plug their CPUs, accelerators and other components directly into Opteron processor sockets. AMD's unveiling today of Torrenza 2 - aka the Torrenza Innovation Socket - builds on an existing deal that let third parties tap into the company's Hypertransport technology. Now, AMD has agreed to open up the entire Opteron socket specifications to preferred partners willing to pay a licensing fee. As a result, customers could start seeing some odd but fantastic motherboards with, for example, a mix of Opteron and Cell chips or even an UltraSPARC T1/Opteron combo.â¦
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SuperPuppy writes &quot;Hardcoreware.net has rounded up three 2500+ Socket A processors from AMD. An AthlonXP, based on the Barton core (this particular one predates the locked multipliers we&#39;ve been seeing lately
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Though about the same size, the forthcoming dual-core Opteron will be up to 55 percent faster than today's single-core chips, AMD says.
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Intel Corp. plans to unveil a version of its Xeon processor on today that&#39;s designed for high-end servers with multiple processors-- setting the stage for a showdown with rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.&#39;s upcoming quad-core Barcelona chip.
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AMD is expected to unveil its most powerful desktop processors to date this week, a few days after rival Intel disclosed changes to its desktop processor road map.
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What may be the world's largest supercomputer is being built at the Texas Advanced Computing Center with AMD's Barcelona chips.
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Colonel Mustard in Q4 with a processor An uncomfortable war of speculation over the ship date for AMD's four-core Barcelona processor has broken out between the chipmaker, supercomputer vendor Cray and the Dow Jones newswire.â¦
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Slotting into existing product line AMD looks set to introduce its first 65nm processors in December this year, a quartet of dual-core Athlon 64 X2 CPUs, if a report citing sources who've seen the chip maker's latest roadmap are to be believed.â¦
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2GHz chip is the highest performing processor in AMD's family of low-power Mobile AMD Athlon 64 products.
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(InfoWorld) - Advanced Micro DevicesÂ (AMD) said Friday it wouldÂ begin shipping its "Barcelona" quad-core Opteron processorÂ in August, rebutting industry rumors that the chip faced manufacturing problems that could delay it until October. Although AMD has already lined up hardware partners like Sun MicrosystemsÂ to use the chip in high-end servers, some analysts had predicted that a delayed release could cause AMD toÂ lose business to Intel. However, AMD insists it is on schedule to produce both standard and low-wattage SE (special edition) versions of Barcelona, in a range of frequencies up to 2.0GHz. The new Barcelona chips will generate the same amount of heat as current Opteron chips, but improve computing performance by 70 percent for database applications or 40 percent for floating point jobs, Allen said. Future versions of both types will run at even higher speeds, allowing customers to further improve their energy efficiency, said Randy Allen, corporate vice president of AMD's server and workstation division. Intel competes for those same customers today with the dual-core Woodcrest and quad-core Clovertown Xeon processorsÂ launched last year, and plans to up the ante in the fourth quarter of 2007 with quad-core "Harpertown" server chip using smaller, 45-nanometer scale components. AMD will begin shipping Barcelona chips for sale in August, and expects server vendors to ship commercial products using the chip by September. AMD hopes those new servers are popular enough to help reverse a slide in market share and revenue in recent months. The company has posted losses of hundreds of millions of dollars for the past two quarters as it struggles to survive aÂ price war with Intel. Â
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Although the FX-55 runs at 2.6 gigahertz, AMD claims its efficiency makes it a rival of the 4 GHz Pentium processor that Intel dropped from development last week.
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COMPLETE ANALYSIS of perhaps the most important CPU architectural release in AMD's history, the long-awaited response to a swarm of challenges from Intel. BetaNews talks exclusively with AMD worldwide market development manager John Fruehe, and examines five major issues which could make or break Quad-Core Opteron, and which could have lasting influence on how AMD's strategy proceeds over the next several years.