AMD’s Barcelona: 1.6-GHz and ‘Disappointing’
AMD’s partners reveal the speeds of its upcoming “Barcelona” chip, and talk more about what they see as storm clouds hovering above AMD’s next-generation flagship architecture.

Well, give credit where credit is due, and blame where it should be as well. Apparently both Sumner Lemon of IDG and I completely missed the fact that the servers running AMD’s quad-core Barcelona chip in AMD’s booth showed the chip running at 1.6 GHz. DailyTech didn’t, and even persuaded someone to run some quick benchmarks (off of a USB stick they smuggled in, I suspect). That 1.6-GHz figure is true; I received that number from one of AMD’s partners, along with my contribution to the story: “disappointing”. And that’s news, if only because three of AMD’s partners used that exact word in describing the chip. One partner used this term: “chaos”. And these guys had AMD boards in their booth.

Stirea este de fatp este o opinie personala aparuta initial pe gearlog.com , insa dupa mine cred ca adevarul este undeva la jumatate, dar ramane de vazut … asteptam sa apara ceva nou de la AMD si sper sa fie macar la jumatate din promisiuni

Frecventa de 1.6 Ghz nu este mica, chiar Intel are procesoare la ora actuala intre 1.066 Ghz … 2.33 Ghz , vietzele astronomice de peste 3 Ghz incep sa dispara incet incet in favoarea performantei crescute prin implementarea mai multor nuclee si imbunatatirea arhitecturii.