It’s been delayed many times, but AMD’s Barcelona processors, formally known as the Quad-Core Opteron, are finally shipping. The processors were due more than a year ago but were repeatedly postponed. Then came the launch event in August 2007, with chips in the 1.8GHz to 2.0GHz range and the promise of a 2.5GHz model by December. Next came the errata bug, which cropped up only in certain circumstances, but it was enough to force the company to halt production. The bug is fixed, and now, more than a year late, AMD has quad-core processors available in volume. This announcement comes as eight system vendors, including Sun and HP, are offering Quad-Core Opteron servers. HP introduced a giant system with eight processors.

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