AMD Claims Quad-core Desktop CPUs Ready for Christmas

[Shintai]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7232

AMD details it's desktop plans for the next year, though be it a quarter later than originally planned

[safan80]

yeah I saw this. That's not a good move.

[madcho]

that can't be true

september please

[Jamesrt2004]

yay high oc's low volts ftw for Server desktop chips

[breakfromyou]

crap. just one quarter? didn't a few roadmaps say Q2?

[Helmore]

Most roadmaps said Q2 for the server chips, not for the desktop part which were slated to launch in Q3 but now they are telling us differently.

[Ubermann]

Waiting for more sources..

[freeloader]

And this is from a company that just fired 3% of it's global workforce!

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39555

AMD can't hold a schedule if you put a gun to their collective heads.

As a shareholder, it's time for a management shakeup, bigtime. Hector needs security to escort his fat ass out the door.

[Daveb2012]

better late then never, or no?

[madcho]

better late then never, or no?

two years after, i prefer never

[VulgarHandle]

just over a year to respond to C2D, not bad...

[red]

More like a year and a half.

[Metroid]

Christmas of what year? I say X-Mas '08....

Basher

[ZhaoYun]

As long as it's a quality cpu, waiting is not an issue.

[vengance_01]

yup I happily use my 6300 till then. If AMD proves there quad core is in-deed good I will jump ship, but till then Core 2 FTW!

[gOJDO]

Lucky you, playing with Conroes. I was waiting 2 months after its release to get one. What do you think about Penryn top frequency? Does 3.5GHz C2Q, 3.66GHz C2D sounds logical to you?

[Kanten]

This is gonna be a paper launch isn't it?

[Nikolasz]

Poor Cyrix...

[G3XC]

Christmas, thats simply to long..

[savantu]

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.

[nemrod]

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.

[red]

http://seekingalpha.com/article/32901

A month ago they said

First, you will see desktop variance of Barcelona in both two core and four core form in Q3 as well.

[nemrod]

So I correct my post, reading many dreams from fanboys, Dirk R. Meyer take those dreams for reality...

... or could we trust COO when the loss are 611 millions $?

[Lightman]

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...

[red]

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.