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AMD Delaying Barcelona Volume Shipments to Next Year
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Posted by Donster on: 2007-12-06 15:07:25 430
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By Tom Krazit @ CNET News
AMD will be forced to delay the ramp of its Barcelona server processor after running into a bug, the company has confirmed.
Barcelona, AMD's first quad-core processor for servers, is shipping to some customers in the high-performance computing market. But the company had hoped to start shipping it to a wider variety of customers this month, as well as introduce a faster model that could better compete with Intel's latest Penryn chips.
Unfortunately for AMD, that's going to have to wait, according to a company spokesman. The Tech Report has an excellent description of the problem that AMD encountered with the translation lookaside buffer used in cache memory, which also affects the Phenom desktop chips. I'm not even going to attempt to explain to you exactly what that means, check out Scott Wasson's article for a detailed look at that. Bottom line, however: Barcelona's arrival on the main stage is going to be delayed, again.
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