Since it taped out in mid august 06 I don't see why some believe the crap about Q2/early Q3 launch...
Validation takes at least 1 year and more so on complex designs like K10 where AMD changed the cores and put 4 of them on the same die.
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Since it taped out in mid august 06 I don't see why some believe the crap about Q2/early Q3 launch...
Validation takes at least 1 year and more so on complex designs like K10 where AMD changed the cores and put 4 of them on the same die.
Why claims it is late? Some people take sometimes their dream for reality... Before the big barcelona hype, one year ago: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...503150902.html desktop version for Q1 2008. So in fact they are in advance.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/32901
A month ago they said
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First, you will see desktop variance of Barcelona in both two core and four core form in Q3 as well.
So I correct my post, reading many dreams from fanboys, Dirk R. Meyer take those dreams for reality... :D
... or could we trust COO when the loss are 611 millions $?
Guys anybody will be able to buy Barcelona for desktop in Q3!
Are you all forget that Opteron 1xxx is AM2(+) CPU??
Anyone wanting Barcelona ASAP should shave few more $$ for Opteron1xxx B0(2) stepping and job done...
Server doesn't necessarily mean all Opteron. I'm pretty sure they're shooting for quad socket, then dual socket, then single socket along with desktop.