It is completely regular, that ideological war between Intel and AMD is going even with the soon released processors. AMD company many times attempted to state about the advantage of its four core processors barcelona above Intel clovertown, using as reasons the layout of four cores on one crystal.
In its side Intel representative attempts to prove their advantage witch consists in strategy of new technical processes introduction and new architectures . It is important that up to the moment of passage to the new architecture Intel has to control sufficiently well the mastered in previous year technological process, and a similar sequence reduces the complexity of the release of new generations processors by 50%, according to Intel estimations .
Mr. Kirk Skaugen said that Barcelona can be intellectually elegant processor, but complexity and the high cost of production can deprive this core of many advantages - for example, if within the short times it will be impossible to increase the volumes of processors production or to reach the assigned frequency .
The union of new technical process and new architecture can result in numerous risks, concludes Kirk Skaugen. Let us note, that AMD already released 65 nm processors generation K8, so that in this sense 65 nm technical process is not new for AMD company and it should not complicate the production of four core processors barcelona.