There had been industry speculation that AMD would put the launch date back because of unspecified manufacturing problems. The processors are code-named “Barcelona”.
AMD said it would start shipping both standard and low-power versions in August. The company said it was the first time AMD had ever made standard and low power versions of a product available at launch.
With the new processors shipping in volume in August, the company said it expects hardware partners to start shipping system products based on Barcelona in September.
Barcelona is the first x86 processor to integrate four processing cores onto a single piece of silicon. AMD says the development would deliver significant performance and performance-per-watt enhancements over existing architectures.
“More than ever before, customers are expecting energy-efficiency and performance-per-watt leadership as much as absolute performance,” AMD’s Server and Workstation Division corporate vice-president Randy Allen said.
“With this new reality of computing, greater performance at the expense of greater power consumption is no longer an option.”
“AMD has prioritised production of our low power and standard power products because our customers and ecosystem demand it, and we firmly believe that the introduction of our native Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor will deliver on the promise of the highest levels of performance-per-watt the industry has ever seen.”
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