Posted on Thursday, October 12 2006 @ 20:10 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
AMD presented their quad-core Barcelona processor design.
If you're not super excited by technical chip jargon like "advanced branch prediction" and "sideband stack optimizer," you might want to skip this one over, but for you chipheads out there, AMD has just unveiled the nitty gritty specs behind their forthcoming Barcelona quad-core processors. Built on a 65nm SOI process, the new chips will take the place of AMD's Opteron line, and will power workstations and servers sometime mid-2007 before the technology trickles down to consumer versions of the chips..
More info at
Engadget.
