{"id":574,"date":"2007-07-09T16:58:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T14:58:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-09T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T14:58:17","slug":"amd-to-ship-native-x86-quad-core-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/574-amd-to-ship-native-x86-quad-core-processors.html","title":{"rendered":"AMD to ship native x86 Quad-Core processors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This would be the first time that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\" target=\"_blank\">AMD<\/a> has made both standard and low power parts immediately available as part of a processor launch.&nbsp; <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>AMD has also updated its projected timing on &#39;Barcelona&rsquo; availability and provided additional product details. AMD expects that the processors will begin shipping for revenue in August, with systems from AMD platform partners beginning to ship in September.<\/p>\n<p>According to AMD, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us-en\/Processors\/ProductInformation\/0,,30_118_8825,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors<\/a> can deliver performance and performance-per-watt enhancements over existing processor architectures, yet are designed to be backwards-compatible with existing AMD Opteron platforms. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>With planned availability at launch in a range of frequencies up to 2GHz, AMD expects its native quad-core processors to scale to higher frequencies in Q407 in both standard and Special Edition (SE) versions. <\/p>\n<p>Designed to operate within the same thermal envelopes as current generation AMD Opteron processors, AMD estimates that the new processors can provide a performance increase up to 70% on certain database applications, and up to 40% on certain floating point applications, with subsequent higher frequency processors expected to significantly add to this performance advantage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD has announced that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, code-named &#8216;Barcelona&#8217;, are planned for shipment in both standard and low power versions at launch later this year.<\/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-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}