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Information Technology News AMD to shout olé with Barcelona quad-core | AMD to shout olé with Barcelona quad-core |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Sunday, 09 September 2007 | |
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How much is significant? According to AMD, Barcelona can deliver a 70% performance increase on database applications and a 40% improvement on floating point applications with chips initially running at 2.0Ghz and ramping up to 3.0Ghz by mid-2008. After trailing Intel to the market by a full year with a quad-core offering, AMD has stuck with the line that its new quad-core on a single die offering will be more efficient than Intel's architecture because the processing cores on Barcelona chips each have their own discrete cache and thus require less clock cycles when a memory request is made on a core. For its part, Intel which has recaptured the initiative and market share from AMD in the past 12 months, has rubbished AMD's claims that there is an advantage of having four cores on a single die. Intel has stated with some justification through a number of senior executives, from CEO Paul Otellini down, that customers don't give a hoot what's "under the hood". AMD is no doubt hoping that customers will care what's under the hood if Barcelona can demonstrate markedly superior performance come September 10.
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