AMD "stops" shipping Barcelona

[Gen.Ben]

This is another thread to go on with Beeron choosing a new processor, AMD or Intel, I didn't really want to thread crap so here is another thread.


According to http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/13721 and somewhat confirmed by AMD:

An industry source at a tier-two reseller told The Tech Report that the TLB erratum has led to a "stop ship" order on all Barcelona Opterons. When asked for comment, spokesman Phil Hughes said AMD is shipping Barcelona Opterons now, but only for "specific customer deals.

More updated info: http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/13724

[Clay Pigeon]

hmm I thought they were going to just microcode patch them to disable the tlb, which would decrease performance but get rid of the errata. Also I thought the errata only effected 2.4+ GHz phenoms and barcelonas.


Either way, steer clear until the B3 stepping, which should clear it all up.

[regis]

Aren't the Opterons just like the Intel Celeron's, those 'crappy' mobile CPUs? Or are they more like the Intel Itanium (the server processors)??

[Clay Pigeon]

[quote="regis";p="55481"]Aren't the Opterons just like the Intel Celeron's, those 'crappy' mobile CPUs? Or are they more like the Intel Itanium (the server processors)??[/quote]

Opterons are the equivalent of Xeons. Semprons are Celerons. Athlons are Pentiums. Turions are Pentium Ms. Geodes are their teensy wheensy embedded chips, which I dont believe intel has a current competitor for.

Nothing is the equivalent of the HMS tItanic (which sucks).