Official AMD Barcelona Thread

[Jacky]

didn't see anyone post these ones from Fuad. If true, looks like AMD may actually have some good news to compete with although they are ultra expensive to make.

3 to 4 % of Barcelona can go over 2.6 GHz
K10 at the corner of a wafer doomed to 2 GHz

by the way, Where the crap is the corner of a circle?

I don't know what I should think about "3-4% of Barc can go over 2.6GHz" that's like saying 40% (or any other random number...) of the core 2 based xeons can go over 3,33GHz, but what about the TDP, is it reasonable? I don't believe AMD/Intel would sell 150W chips...

"The second trouble is that not all the chips from wafer works and we know that AMD is currently not happy with yields of the chips and will likely need another revision and it can pray that everything including clocks, leakage and speed is going to be fine. Otherwise it won't be pretty."

I thought it's not the yields? Someone's definitely lying here...

Krishna Shankar - JMP Securities

I just wanted to get a sense for [Barcelona] -- it sounds like there was some delay here and I wanted to get a sense for the challenges and how you plan to scale up the performance to address the various performance segments in the market.

Dirk R. Meyer

I better understand, thank you. First of all, we’re very happy with our 65-nanometer yields across all products, including Barcelona, so no issue there. The fact of the matter, Barcelona, while being an absolutely great product, is complicated and it’s taking a little bit more design work than we anticipated getting the final rim in place.

AMD earnings call

sorry for bashing the inq, but it's great fun, they are so clueless... Maybe they get some inside information, but I don't believe, that they *even understand what they are told*

They do [care about enthusiasts] but a different class of enthusiasts.
Most notably the Server enthusiasts with high end only demands with absolutely unlimited budgets

If they had unlimited budgets they'd buy xeons, because they couldn't care less about the fb-dimm power consumption! Oh, no, tbh they'd buy power6/bluegene-P systems depending on the workload.
So no unlimited budgets.. it's still about power draw, were the AMD platform is quite competetive even w/o Barcelona (just imagine what Barc will do on that front..)

edit: lol, I confused the inq and fudzilla.. (anyway fudzilla is even worse *g*)