
AMD demonstrates its quad-core server chip
Date: Thursday, November 30 @ 15:12:02 CST Topic: Archive of stories pre April 2007
Advanced Micro Devices now has a quad-core server chip that's good enough for demonstration purposes. The company showed off a server running four of the processors at a meeting for analysts Thursday.
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AMD plans to release its quad-core server chip, currently code-named Barcelona, in the middle of next year. It's behind Intel, which launched a quad-core server chip last month.
But, just as Intel claimed when it was behind on dual-core designs, AMD doesn't think this is a race. In downplaying the quad-core gap, AMD cited the "native" quad-core design it chose for its processor as the reason for its measured approach to the quad-core goal, saying customers wanted an processor in which all four cores are integrated onto a single piece of silicon.
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