AMD Barcelona
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AMD is looking to comeback in the server game with the announcement of their newest high end server CPUs, codenamed Barcelona. AMD is looking to slow down Intel, as the larger company has introduced CPUs designed to overpower the AMD Opteron.
AMD has been shipping the Quad-Core AMD Opteron chip to server vendors throughout August, but will use its news conference in San Francisco to publicly announce those partnerships as well as prices and benchmark test results.
The company plans to launch a 1.9GHz, 68-watt Barcelona chip that focuses on power efficiency, and a 2.0GHz, 95-watt version that focuses on price/performance, said Randy Allen, AMD’s corporate vice president for the server and workstation division. In the fourth quarter, the company will follow that with a 2.3 GHz, 120-watt version for high-performance applications, and higher clock speeds for the first two chips.
There is a lot at stake. After launching the original Opteron chip in 2003, the company enjoyed brisk demand as customers applauded the power-efficient performance of that 130-nanometer design process chip. But Intel soon got back in the fight, as both companies built smaller, faster components, shrinking their chip scales to 90nm and adding a second core.
AMD executives are banking on the Barcelona. Quad-Core technology is the obvious road forward for microprocessors, and they’re sure that Barcelona can deliver the type of performance that customers expect in high-end machines.
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