BAD HARDWARE WEEK

At Computex on Tuesday, the company plans to demonstrate three servers running Barcelona, a quad-core server processor. Three system builders-- Supermicro, Tyan and Uniwide -- will be running servers using Barcelona in a variety of configurations, said Steve Demski, Opteron product manager.
Barcelona is expected to help end the skid as AMD's first quad-core product. Servers with the chip are expected in the third quarter, while a desktop version will arrive later in the year.
In fact, although we have seen DVT level chips running up to 2.3GHz, we understand there might be another silicon spin (maybe more) of Barcelona that is due later this month. If this occurs, then current rumors swirling around the trade show floor about the mass availablity of product not occuring until the fourth quarter might just be true. However, Bad hardware found AMD Barcelona plans even on 02/01/2007. Tyan-AMD server board will be supporting the quad-core Barcelona with nForce Professional 4000 series chipset. And dual power lanes.


One of the Barcelona-based platforms is a blade design by Supermicro, a dense, 4P system that will features 160 processor cores within a 7U (12.25-inch) enclosure. This will translate into 960 processing cores in each rack, according to a statement from Supermicro, of San Jose, Calif.



Being Barcelona announcement quite certain, let the current prices go down.