Official AMD Barcelona Thread

[Shintai]

Kevin Knox (vice president of AMD's commercial business)

Where do things currently stand with Barcelona? We're still on target for a midyear launch with Barcelona. We're actually pretty excited about the product, particularly with respect to some of the features that we're going to enable. When we started out with Barcelona, it had a certain feature set. From the time we started out, from the design perspective, the aspects we're going to address, things like virtualization and power, have become more important to the industry. We think its going to have a bigger impact than we originally anticipated.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/...ntsrc=hm_topic

Translated:
Our K10 will use less power idle and perform better in a virtualized environment. Besides that we dont have anything to show.

But I guess this performs just aswell as the 2900XT GTX killer and the pricewar 100million parts uber performance 2600XT.

Is Barcelona going to reverse AMD's recent losses in server market share? I firmly believe it will. A lot of that has to do with this not being just a speed upgrade. If it was just a speed upgrade ... it's a lot more challenging at any point in time to get an advantage and maintain that advantage.

Oh ye, speedbumps is completely overrated. Now lets focus on something else.