Quote Originally Posted by informal
Tsk,tsk,tsk

Those are the final production revisions,NOT ES!
What do you think,that Sun will get quad core ES Barcelona in April and make an uber expensive supercomputer with a bunch of ES chips.You gotta be kidding...

April-June,final shipments of the so called RevB (final production rev.).
ES are probably wandering around in the wild as we speak.But we all know AMD,and this time the NDA curtain reached it's highest peak.Not surprising at all ,if we consider the fact that this chip is the basis for the next 2-3 years of AMD product lineup.
So then you either believe that AMD intends to skip the ES process with Barcelona and go straight into volume production based solely on internal testing or that everyone is scared silly of violating the NDA of little AMD but couldn't care less about violating Intel's NDAs?

Does this popular "AMD=TOP SECRET" fanboy myth really make sense to you? AMD hyped K8 for 3 years and the first ES BMs appeared 16 months before the launch yet you believe that K8L will go from vaporware rumors and task manager demos to hard product launch in ~3 months, Good luck with that.