Barcelona B3: already in partners' hands?

Last week, AMD provided the first samples of the Opteron Barcelona B3 to its partners as well as certain wholesalers according to CNET, which cites one of the company’s representative.

Several manufacturers (and not the smallest ones) are awaiting this revision of AMD’s quad core processor to commercialize servers which integrate it. This is notably the case for Dell, IBM and HP. A spokesperson for this last company declared that they plan the first deliveries for the start of the second quarter. Dell should also offer servers equipped with the Opteron Barcelona in the same quarter.

So this is some good news for AMD because seven months after the launch of its professional CPU, which is finally rid of the TLB bug, it should finally start to come through. Currently, the Opteron Barcelona B2 is almost exclusively reserved to supercalculators and for those involved in their conception or that know how to go around the bug.