AMD is lastly launching its Barcelona musculus quadriceps femoris - centre host splintering today , although it ’s formally being call the Quad - Core Opteron . Intel may have been beat up AMD to high clock pep pill recently , but the Barcelona offers some carrying out and power - preserve advantages that should level the playing field again .
save power is becoming increasingly important in server room now , both because of the high cost of electricity and from press to become greener . AMD has developed a system , call CoolCore , where individual parts of the C.P.U. are turned off when they ’re not needed .
There will be nine chip options , all invent with 65 nm engineering , and all with 512 KB of level two cache per core and 2 megabyte shared . The top of the range 2GHz 8350 is expected to be priced at $ 1,019 for quantities over 1,000 , with options all the way down to $ 209 . There are expected to be more than 50 products launched this calendar week using the chipping , from Sun Microsystems , Hewlett - Packard , IBM and Dell . [ AMD ]
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