AMD to demonstrate the Quad Core Posted on 01/12/2006 at 11:59 by Marc
At the same time as the release of the 4x4 platform, AMD made the demonstration during the Industry Analyst Forum of a server using 4 Quad-Core Opteron and a total of 16 cores.
The Opteron is codenamed Barcelona and will use the 65 nm process. Just like with the Athlon 64 X2, AMD insist on the fact that this is a "native" Quad core solution and not two dies packaged together like Intel does.
AMD also said that the Opteron will be compatible with existent Socket F platforms. About performances, AMD announces respectively 13% and 46% improvements with TPC OLTP and SPECfp compared to a Xeon 5355. These performances are however only based on estimations and that means that the chip isn't yet fully functional.
AMD also showed that their employees can have their picture taken with their Quad Core like Intel does. They even took two pictures, one with the Barcelona on the left and one with a Xeon without its protection:
