BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Famous InTELquirer journo founds AMD Barcelona clock at 1,8 Ghz.Is it bad or good? First, it is supposedly demoed clock. That means at launch it might be substantially higher.
However, is there any need for it? Barcelona architecture is so superior o Intel Core Duo, that simply there is no
need for higher clock in the 4 core gladiators' arena. Of course, new AMD coure could run faster, but power consumption will rise too. Isn't it much better to drive job and dispatch it to the cores that consumes less power together than say 2-3 times higer clocked single core? But they will consume power even in the case when only one low power core would be sufficient. Wrong, new AMD architecture has split power planes. That means that not needed processor will be switched off. Completely. OK, we see thus power aware architecture below the Barca engine hub.

Now, what will Intel do? Well, Intel quad core has bus connectivity that will run well under 32bit applications, but will suck under 64bit Vista, in comparision to the new AMD. And situation will remain unchanged until 2009. Point.
However, until then AMD will gradually rise its clok. Starting even form 1,8 Ghz. Actually, Bad hardware week found previosly that even 1,7Ghz Barcelona core might suffice to beat Intel. Amen.
We could have delay for Barcelona, but not for more than a month. Now, Barcelona benchmarks remain to be seen on Computex. At least. But not of course, last.