This week many AMD servers partners already accused this company due to the insufficient deliveries capacities of opteron processors on core barcelona. Naturally, many would like to know, when such limitation will be solved , and will this influence the accessibility of desktop processors phenom. AMD representatives answered a part of these questions after the traditional proclaiming of the financial company activity results for the third quarter 2007.
As a whole, the company continues to suffer from losses, but their sizes are reduced by confident rates. The capacities of processors deliveries grew in the third quarter by 16%, and gain from them grew by 19%. In the passed block AMD dispatched a record in processors quantity . Income from the graphic products grew by 29%, from mobile processors up to 41%. Company expects to leave the unprofitably period in the next months.
AMD representatives also attempted to limit rumors about technological problems in barcelona processors , their deliveries capacities are slow until now and their frequencies do not exceed 2.5 GHz. AMD noted again that the release level of suitable barcelona processors completely corresponds to AMD expectations , and it coincides with the release level of 65 nm processors K8 generation . Delay in the growth of deliveries capacities for barcelona is caused by problems in the design transfer of four core processors to the 65 nm technology. At present problems are solved, and to the middle of the current block AMD promises to increase the deliveries capacities of barcelona processors . In particular, if in the third quarter several ten thousands processors was dispatched, then in the fourth quarter several hundred thousands of processors will be dispatched.
AMD representatives promised to announce models with frequency 2.5 GHz in the middle of the current block. During November AMD will announce the platform spider, which includes phenom processors generation and graphic chips RV670. Formal announcement of the first phenom models will actually takes place during November.