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 The industry is
buzzing about the launch of Quad-Core AMD Opteron?
processors, the world's
first native x86
quad-core processors. Read what some leading
publications reported about the
world's most
advanced x86 processor ever.
AMD CEO Hector Ruiz discusses Quad-Core AMD
Opteron processors and AMD's improved position in
the market.
eWeek
AMD Goes on the Offensive
AMD CEO Hector Ruiz discusses how
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors will put AMD
ahead.
InternetNews
AMD CEO Predicts 'An Innovation
Tsunami
"The release of the hotly
anticipated Barcelona processor escalates the
competition between AMD and Intel in the
server-chip market."
Forbes.com
AMD Ready To Rumble
On a
performance-per-watt basis, these processors take
the cake with ease...
The Motley Fool
AMD's Barcelona: Power-Sipping Data
Center Dominator
What may well become
the world's largest supercomputer is now being
built at the Texas Advanced Computing Center with
Barcelona chips.
Computerworld
Large Orders for Barcelona Chips Starts
New Battle
AMD has introduced a new
metric to measure server power consumption,
Average CPU Power, aimed at giving users a more
accurate way to judge how much power their
processors will consume.
BetaNews
Barcelona: AMD Unveils New Power Metric
for CPUs
AMD highlights new features
in Quad-Core AMD Opteron
Processors
ExtremeTech
AMD's 'Barcelona' Chips Claim
Performance Advantages
"the CPU's
power sipping ways and backward compatibility with
dual core Opterons will surely create
opportunities for channel players in the server
market."
CRN
Review: AMD's New Quad Core Barcelona
"It's an industry changing product,"
said Pat Patla, director of server workstations at
AMD. "Barcelona is a ground-up 100% new design.
It's the most impactful processor we've ever
made."
Marketwatch
AMD rolls out major upgrade to
microprocessors
AMD CEO Hector Ruiz
discussed the launch of Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processors and the importance of fair and open
competition
Newsweek
A Chip That's Worth a Wait
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is joining an
exclusive club, makers of quad-core
chips.
Investor's Business Daily
The AMD, Intel Duel Moves Up The Scale
To Quad-Core Stage
The Barcelona
launch is as significant as the original Opteron.
While the Rev E and Rev F chips were neat
products, they represented a doubling up of
existing technology. But Barcelona has a new core,
a new architecture, and delivers performance per
watt leadership.
IT Jungle
AMD Gets Aggressive About Watts with
Quad-Core Barcelonas
With the release
of its new line of server chips, code-named
Barcelona, AMD is emphasizing the average power
use of each chip rather than assuming that all
chips will be running flat out all the time. The
new metric, referred to as Average CPU Power, is
designed to help customers get a more realistic
idea of how much power and cooling they'll need in
real-world
situations.
BusinessWeek.com
BusinessWeek Online: AMD's Latest Intel
Counterattack
"Star Wars" prequel
producer Rick McCallum lauded AMD for standing by
Lucasfilm early on at a time when there were no
special effects companies outside the movie
studios and the technology was made by hand.
InformationWeek
AMD Powers the Force in Lucasfilm's
Data Center
Because the chip fits into
the same platform as the dual-core model,
companies can get a significant performance boost
on many workloads at the same amount of power
consumption. In addition, the new chip has better
virtualization features for consolidating servers.
InformationWeek
AMD to Release Faster Quad-Core in
December
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