AMD Unveils Barcelona Quad-Core Details

At Microprocessor Forum, AMD's media person Ben Sander laid out architecture details of the CPU maker's upcoming quad-core Opterons. The processors will feature sped-up floating-point operations, improvements to IPC, more memory bandwidth, and improved power management.AMD claims that its quad core is true quad core, while Intel's is two dual-cores grafted together.

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