AMD pumps up the Barcelona volume

This means we're all becoming victims of a spate of press releases, and as sure as eggs is eggs, here's one about what the chip vendors call "ecosystems".

The idea of a chip having an "ecosystem" raises images of a little creature bathed in rays from the sun, while calming breezes bring brief showers of rain allowing beautiful flora to blossom while long legged antelopes graze on the gentle slopes of the native quad core Barcelona.

The truth is, unfortunately, a heap more banal than this paradisical whimsy. As the following table shows:

How beautiful. µ