The appearance of news about the demonstration by the AMD company of models processors generation K8L caused enthusiasm among the worshippers from the production of this firm. Many even forgot, that we are talking about servers processors series opteron 8xxx, and they began to require the presence of tests in the studio. Meanwhile demonstration system on the base of four processors opteron 8xxx generation K8L only worked under control of operating system Windows, demonstrating the presence of sixteen cores in the windows task manager.
On the site AMD trailler with the diagrams, intended to demonstrate increase in the speed from the passage to the use of four core processors generation K8L,we could not satisfy the curiosity of demanding users , since these results were distant from the reality. AMD have not permitted any test on the demonstration system with the processors K8L n, including even elementary programs from the standard collection Windows. Why demonstration was limited?
Associates explained, that AMD now has available the sufficiently dump revision A1 of processors generation K8L, company simply did not have time to prepare for the end of year the more advanced revision the core barcelona. However, it have time to show the models of these processors prior to the end of year - previously AMD gave the appropriate promise. so those cpu loaded Windows - associates are assured that their no sense to wait for benchmark test of those processors K8L within the next few days .
To panic and speak about the inevitability of those processor or the later release date does not follow. As the periods OF the anoncement is sufficiently later - from the second block to the middle of 2007. This means that for amd there is a tone of time. the more advanced stepping core barcelona can be prepared practically from day to day - current demonstration of models took place, and now it is possible to be concentrated on production and technological questions.
Simultaneously associates report that the produced on 0.065 m technical process products AMD gladden producer by their quality - it already exceeds expectations. In overclocking the 0.065 m processors with the high clock frequencies will hardly help, and here to accelerate the migration to 0.065 m technical process for sure will help. Now for AMD it s more important to arrange the production of inexpensive mass models on the more advantageous 0.065 m technical process, the first representatives of this technical process must appear already tomorrow. In the following half-year AMD expects to transfer for 0.065 m technical process half of it s production, and to the middle of 2007 to completely forgive the use of 0.09 m technical process.