{"id":236,"date":"2007-06-11T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-11T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T18:39:00","slug":"amd-demonstrates-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/236-amd-demonstrates-barcelona.html","title":{"rendered":"AMD demonstrates &#8216;Barcelona&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">&#39;Barcelona&rsquo; processors are expected to deliver up to 50 to 80% performance and performance-per-watt improvements on a broad range of server applications over similar current generation AMD Opteron processors.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In addition, these quad-core processors are designed to be drop-in compatible (following a BIOS upgrade) with all existing AMD Opteron processor-based systems using low-power DDR2 memory, while also enabling new platform capabilities. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Platforms displayed from Supermicro and Uniwide, participants in the AMD Validated Server programme, are designed to take advantage of a feature in &#39;Barcelona&#39; processors called Dual Dynamic Power Management, which is intended to deliver power independently to the CPU and to the memory controller. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Another of AMD&rsquo;s server infrastructure partners is ASUS. &ldquo;We eagerly anticipate the widespread availability of AMD quad-core &#39;Barcelona&rsquo; processors later this year,&rdquo; says Bernard Cheng, associate vice-president, server business unit, ASUS. <\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD has announced that three vendors attending Computex Taipei have unveiling server platforms demonstrating a native x86 quad-core solution, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors (codenamed Barcelona). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}