Problem report for AMD's Quad-Cores: A 1-Month Report Card

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 15 October 2007 - 11:00 · 5 comments & 5285 views

Advertisement (Why?)

The story has been reproduced below for your reference as you make a report. You may file the report below.

The good news is Advanced Micro Devices has a hot product on its hands with the recently released Opteron quad-core processors. The less encouraging news is that some system builder partners say they've had trouble getting their hands on product in the month since AMD launched the server chips codenamed Barcelona.

When the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chip maker debuted the "first native quad-core x86 microprocessor" Sept. 10 in six locations around the world, everybody from Tier 1 OEMs to custom system builders was anxious to see if the next few weeks would prove AMD's claims about superior performance-per-watt, ease of exchange with dual-core Opterons and memory-friendly floating points. So far, so good, say channel partners.

View: The full story
News source: CRN


Problem Report

Please paste the problematic text into this text area.

Why is the quoted text a problem? Please type details on typos or misinformation here.

Advertisement (Why?)