BAD HARDWARE WEEK

AMD Barcelona will be announced on Computex Taiwan June 6th 2007.
However, it will be spotted at OEMs even in May. Just as predicted at badhardware.
The most important thing INSIDE is a new 4 issues Barcelona core. Consequently, at least 30% faster than the old one. Thus, Barcelona's 2,3 Ghz K10 core clock is effectively comparable with 3Ghz old K8 core. Quite competitive with 3 Ghz Intel's Clowertown. Beside, table below shows a lot of clock boost potential from K10. What actually K10 lacks is low-K dielectrics technology to push Barcelona HT to the version 3.0 limits, keeping the same time 95W thermal envelope. But, that will come out only by mid of 2008 year and exclusively in 45nm technology. Until then, we might expect at AMD some compromise between clock speed and power consumption . For example, Barcelona will INDEPENDENTLY scale down core voltages down to 0.95V , to keep power envelope below 95W. Greyhound would run quad core and HT 3.0 at your desktop even in 1H08. So, Barcelona from Deerhound K10 family will dance only one year, until HT 3.0 based Shanghai (45 nm, 6MB L3 ZRAM?) 4 cores arrive. We expect that Intel will demonstrate some details of its future solution to this kind problem of its own, in April this year, named CSI. Intel plans to introduce CSI FSB in 2008 too. Huh, what an exciting computing year.