After what seems like an eternity holding out on a concrete Barcelona announcement, AMD has finally unveiled the new chips. But we won't see a high-end version of the chip until Q4.
AMD has launched Barcelona into three performance categories: high-performance, standard, and energy-efficient. AMD won't be launching the high-end Barcelona chips just yet.
That leaves us with a maximum 2.0GHz chip in the meantime.
When the speedy chips finally do arrive, we understand that they'll have a ACP (average CPU power) of 105W - that's the latest figure we've heard, anyway. TDP is 120W, still.
We've already reported on the sampling strategy AMD's applying to Barcelona, seemingly making life both hard for journalists and confusing for customers.
Barcelona is, of course, already a delayed product. So while reports of achieved clock speeds fly around the web, the actual clock speeds of products being delivered into the channel will, for the time being at least, be markedly less.
AMD's answer to Core2 is here, just about, but it's shaping up to be a long, drawn out, and potentially rather confusing battle.
