Firm date, speeds for AMD Barcelonas beckon

THE FIRST AMD chips using the Barcelona core will be released on September 10th, with the first chips to surface being a 1.9GHz 2348 and a 2GHz 2350.

Other chips will follow in October of this year although a 2354, which is a 2.2GHz microprocessor, is likely to be available in August through channel distribution.

Sources close to AMD's plans in Taiwan tell the INQ that AMD hopes to get 2.5GHz bins out of Barcelona, although dates for such beasts are not yet available.

What we do have now is a projected chart for the chips, which are double socket quad cores with 64K x 4 L1 cache, 512K x 4 L2 cache, so 2MB shared cache, and when you buy them in 1000s.

2348	1.9GHz	95W	$320
2350	2.0GHz	95W	$390
2352	2.1GHz	95W	$450
2354	2.2GHz	95W	$610
2356	2.3GHz	95W	$795
2358	2.4GHz	120W	$1180
2360	2.5GHz	120W	TBA

Other chips are the 8348 at $790; the 8350 at $1,025; the 8352 TBA; the 8354 at $1,190 and the 8356 at $1,550. No firm dates for many of these chips are yet available. µ

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