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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has launched the product that it has long been purporting to push them to the top of the heap. After several months of frustrations and delays, their latest processor hit the market early this week. It is the quad-core server chip dubbed as Barcelona.

Officially called Quad-Core Opteron, it is featured in no less than nine versions. All if these were manufactured using the 65-nm process. These are the first quad-core chips from AMD and the first server chips from them that are made using this technology. Previous server chips were made using a 90-nm process. All of the Quad-Core Opteron chips have 512K bytes of level two cache per processor core, and 2M bytes of level three cache shared by the four cores. Five versions of the Quad-Core Opteron will be available for servers with one or two processors. The company also added a 128-bit floating point unit to the Quad-Core Opteron to boost performance for certain types of applications.

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