AMD confirmed through its announcement to ship the Barcelona chips next month. Yes Barcelona, the AMD version of quad core as direct answer to Intel`s quad core chips. The upcoming Barcelona will boast 2GHz clock speed with low power consumption. The company also claimed that the performance of Barcelona chips increase up to 70%. Ok we should wait until August to prove it. By the way, AMD expecting to release the higher clock speed in Q4 this year. [via slashgear]
