Thursday, June 28, 2007

Barcelona - at last...?

The Inquirer says Barcelona will grace us on September 10th.

I don't understand a couple of things (he says whimsically):

1. Why are they making such a big deal of pushing server product into the channel. I understand small business probably buys here but surely first thing you want to do is get this into the hands of the OEMs and begin to win back at the large Fortune 500's.

2. What's with the thermals - everything is 95W or 120W.

Finally - I'm glad to see AMD doesn't seem to be giving away the chips at launch. But all this depends on how they perform so bring on the benchmarks dude!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Rob provides expert analysis. They can only keep up these trickly launches for so long.

Tick

Anonymous said...

"2. What's with the thermals - everything is 95W or 120W."

Welcome to native quad core + 65nm process which is still "improving" + a product in need of at least one or 2 major stepping revisions.

I'd assume the power will come down a bit as things go on, the only question is how fast?