AMD Preps for Barcelona Server Processor Launch
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is getting ready to launch Barcelona, its first quad-core server chip. A successful Barcelona launch, expected to happen during the third quarter, is critical for AMD, which has seen its share of the server market battered in recent quarters by Intel. Those market-share losses came with a heavy price, dragging AMD’s finances into the red. In April, the company announced a $611 million loss, largely attributed to tougher competition and a price war with Intel.
Barcelona is not just a quad-core chip, it’s more than quad core. We’ve made fundamental, significant changes to the architecture as part of the chip. We looked at the overall design, at the cache and the pipelines, so it’s a lot more than just taking two dual-core chips and saying it’s quad core. It’s a true, native quad-core design with enhancements at the processor level.
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