AMD reinvents the x86

“Barcelona is a new CPU, not a doubling of cores and not extensions strapped on here and there. Get ready to be blown away long before its release, which is scheduled for midyear.” New power management scheme, 4 cores each with a dedicated L2 cache and new vector math unit. 80% speed up for floating point math.

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