HP DOCUMENTS dug up by Cnet show that the Palo Alto ink company plans to ship Proliant DL585 servers chipped with AMD quad-core Opteron Barcelona processors, once AMD gets the "TLB bug" fixed in the Barcelona's B3 stepping.

Of course, HP has been an AMD's list ever since it "launched" the quad-core chip back in the murky mists of time. Could the fact that a piece of HP paper has been unearthed mean the chip is just around the corner?

For its part, AMD claims it's preparing to send out sampling quantities of B3 stepping chips. The excitement mounts.

Here's the HP pdf. µ