AMD Barcelona Quad Core coming this Monday

Microprocessor company AMD is all set to launch their Barcelona quad core processors on Monday.

The launch is much awaited and the company hopes to challenge the Intel quad core processors with this new range of chips.

The company has already been shipping these Quad-Core AMD Opteron chip to server vendors throughout August.

They are going to showcase a 1.9GHz, 68-watt Barcelona chip which is focused on better power efficiency.

AMD is also going to highlight a 2.0GHz, 95-watt version that focuses on price/performance. Later this year, the company would be launching a 2.3 GHz, 120-watt version for high-performance applications.

Doug Freedman, managing director for research at American Technology Research had this to say on the new developments: “A lot of people view this as six months late or more. Expectations got ahead of themselves, and some people viewed this as a potential savior for AMD after their server share topped out at the end of last year going up against Intel’s dual-die quad-core. Now the feeling is this launch isn’t robust enough in terms of samples shipped, design wins, and the complete food chain.”