AMD to crush AMD with 2.0GHz 'Barcelona'

Barcelona has arrived, sort of, and AMD is talking more about beating itself up than knocking Intel with the new chip. AMD has finally set a firm ship date for the four-core processor, saying customers will receive 2.0GHz SE standard and 1.9GHz HE low-power parts in August. Systems from server makers should then start …

[Branko]

One correction...

Intel never had a true QC chip. Q6600 etc are all two dualcores on the same FSB. AFAIK they plan to have true QC after Penryn- ie in second 45nm generation...

Everytyhing else aside, Barcelona QC should see some performance benefit just due to being true QC...