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Barcelona may be delayed until August or September according to DigiTimes. The Barcelona  chips that are being made are still a little buggy and not polished enough to be sold yet.
You can read DigiTimes article here.
You have to wonder what has caused this change to AMD just a year or so ago they were on [...]

AMD showed off some of its Quad-Core CPUs, showing single socket and dual-socket configurations. This is the first time that AMD has shown off a computer with 8-cores in it.
The barcelona server chips will hit July or August with the desktop part later this year.
AMD showed off these chips by encoding a 1080p movie in [...]

The new chip will have a 3GHz clock with 1333MHz front side bus. Will built on a 65nm process and will have 8MB of L2 Cache.
No doubt an extremely fast processor, Penryn will be much faster, but this is fast.
Every time I hear about new Intel advancements I have to wonder what the heck AMD [...]

I mentioned that Intel was soon to come out with a new Quad-Core Extreme edition chip here, but now you can look at some hard numbers.
ExtremeTech did a great review of the processor and you check that out here.

AMD’s upcoming Barcelona processors will feature an enhanced PowerNow feature. Each of the four cores on this chip will be capable of running at completely different clock speeds depending on load. AMD claims this will cut another 10Watts per chip, even though they are adding an additional 2 cores.
This is pretty amazing and will no [...]

DailyTech has a post up that talks about the Quad-Core Opterons, they have a spec sheet and all. The earliest of them are going to start production in June of this year, they will begin selling them in the middle of this year aswell. The desktop consumer level on socket AM2 will be under production [...]

“We expect across a wide variety of workloads for Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by 40 percent,” AMD’s corporate vice president for server and workstation products, Randy Allen.
The quad-core processor will be built with 65nm manufacturing process. The new chip is said to be built with the same thermal and electrical envelope as existing [...]