Barcelona strangely absent at Computex

clipped from www.gearlog.com

Thursday June 7, 2007 AMD's Barcelona: 1.6-GHz and 'Disappointing' Categories:   Desktops & Laptops Tags:   AMD, Barcelona, Phenom

Well, give credit where credit is due, and blame where it should be as well. Apparently both Sumner Lemon of IDG and I completely missed the fact that the servers running AMD's quad-core Barcelona chip in AMD's booth showed the chip running at 1.6 GHz. DailyTech didn't, and even persuaded someone to run some quick benchmarks (off of a USB stick they smuggled in, I suspect). That 1.6-GHz figure is true; I received that number from one of AMD's partners, along with my contribution to the story: "disappointing". And that's news, if only because three of AMD's partners used that exact word in describing the chip. One partner used this term: "chaos". And these guys had AMD boards in their booth.