The announcement of barcelona processors give answers to the two most important questions: when Phenom will be announced , and are there barcelona models with frequency above 2.0 GHz. Answer to the first question was in the official press release - AMD is going to present the desktop processors phenom generation during December in the present year. Associate got barcelona processor with 2.5 GHz frequency , whereas the frequencies of series models in this month were limited to 2.0 GHz.
But when barcelona series processors will reach the 2.5 GHz frequency ? As reported AMD Vice President (Randy allen), barcelona processors version with 2.5 GHz frequency will be supplied during December this year..
If we considers that AMD prefers to use the new ACP value for describing the energy characteristics of its processors, then the number can come out sufficiently modest. IN addition Until December barcelona core can pass on new stepping.