At a press and analyst briefing Wednesday in San Francisco, AMD executives discussed the company's roadmap for the remaining year and beyond, including new information on the forthcoming "Barcelona" and delayed R600 graphics launch.
In addition to the official release of its first integrated ATI 690 chipset yesterday, execs on both the GPU and CPU side of the company reassured those in attendance that the R600 family and "Barcelona" quad-core design are still on track for release during the first and second half of this year, respectively.
According to Mario Rivas, executive vice president of AMD's computing products group, the company's Barcelona will yield 42 percent better "floating-point" performance than Intel's Xeon X5355 Clovertown in SPEC_fp benchmark tests. ExtremeTech with more.
In addition to the official release of its first integrated ATI 690 chipset yesterday, execs on both the GPU and CPU side of the company reassured those in attendance that the R600 family and "Barcelona" quad-core design are still on track for release during the first and second half of this year, respectively.
According to Mario Rivas, executive vice president of AMD's computing products group, the company's Barcelona will yield 42 percent better "floating-point" performance than Intel's Xeon X5355 Clovertown in SPEC_fp benchmark tests. ExtremeTech with more.
