The first thing to realize is that Barcelona is the core of the next Opteron CPU, AMD's server and workstation product line. While it will also serve as the basis for AMD's next-generation desktop CPU, there will undoubtedly be some differences, though AMD isn't commenting on what those might be..More details over here.
AMD Barcelona quad-core details
Posted on Wednesday, October 11 2006 @ 20:52 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck