AMD Finally Unveils Barcelona Chip

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 10, 2007 @01:11AM from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

Justin Oblehelm writes "AMD has finally unveiled its first set of quad-core processors, three months after its original launch date due to its "complicated" design. Barcelona comes in three categories: high-performance, standard-performance and energy-efficient server models, but only the standard (up to 2.0 GHz) and energy-efficient (up to 1.9 GHz) categories will be available at launch. The high-performance Opterons, together with higher frequencies of the standard and energy-efficient chips, are expected in the out in the fourth quarter of this year. But it's far from clear that this is the product that will help right AMD's ship."

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Re:Cool by SpecTheIntro · 2007-09-10 01:52 · Score: 1, Troll

The only regret I have is that we probably won't use em for DB servers because of Oracle's asinine policy of charging per core, sometimes I wish we had gone SQL2005 for more stuff as it is going to scale better with improving hardware.
That is the most draconian pricing policy I have ever heard. You actually have to pay Oracle for increasing your processing power?

And an honest question: was there a reason why you didn't look at MySQL or PostgreSQL? I'm not a database expert but my work with them has made me believe they are robust solutions--I certainly prefer them to MSSQL, which is about as pleasant to use as a suppository.