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 After an extremely long time of "nothing to see here" from AMD, the veil is finally lifted on AMD's new Barcelona native quad-core architecture today. We'll be updating this news post with links to news, previews, reviews, and formal evaluations of the new CPU's as they begin to trickle out of our colleague's "labs of doom" today. AMD's quad-core Opteron 2300 processors @ TheTechreport AMD's Quad-Core Barcelona: Defending New Territory @ AnandTech AMD Barcelona Review @ Techware Labs AMD Introduces the World’s Most Advanced x86 Processor, Designed for the Demanding Datacenter Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors Deliver Breakthrough Performance-Per-Watt Sunnyvale, Calif. -- September 10, 2007 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today introduced the Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, the world’s most advanced x86 processor ever designed and manufactured and the first native x86 quad-core microprocessor. Designed from inception for the most demanding datacenters, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers from global OEMs and system builders can deliver breakthrough capabilities to customers in a time of dramatically escalating performance-per-watt emphasis. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with AMD’s revolutionary Direct Connect Architecture introduce innovations that go beyond four x86 processing cores on a single die of silicon. Critical considerations for today’s most challenging business requirements inspired Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor innovations: energy efficiency with a 50 percent increase in integer and floating-point performance,1 enhanced virtualization performance, and investment protection via a customer-centric approach enabling non-disruptive transitions from dual- to quad-core within the same power and thermal envelopes to help keep infrastructure costs down. “Today marks one of the great milestones in microprocessor achievement as AMD again raises expectations for industry-standard computing,” said Hector Ruiz, chairman and chief executive officer, AMD. “We’ve worked closely with our customers and partners to design a new generation of processing solutions embodied by today’s Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor – a four-way winner in performance, energy efficiency, virtualization and investment protection. Early customer response has been extremely positive.” Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           
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