http://www.firingsquad.com/news/news...searchid=17031
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AMD has been struggling of late to catch up with Intel and their plans for a true quad-core server processor, code named Barcelona, will finally be realized when it is scheduled to launch on Sept. 10. However a new Q&A at SiliconValley.com with AMD CEO Hector Ruiz reveals some interesting behind-the-scenes issues with the Barcelona chip:
It's awfully complicated. We're doing something that nobody has ever done. As strong as our competitor is, they have not done a quad core on a chip (four chip cores, or brains, laid out on a single piece of silicon instead of on two pieces attached together). . . . Every time we ran into a gotcha (or technical glitch), it created a six-week or so hole in the schedule as we went back and fixed it. We hoped we wouldn't get many of those, but in the Barcelona case, we got more than we thought. By the time we got through fixing them all, we were six months-plus late from where we originally wanted to be.
A desktop version of their quad-core chip, code named Phenom, is due to launch before the end of 2007.
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