Shanghai / Moscow 07:
The fixed B0 revision, not B2
Back in Barcelona Spain, AMD officially said
to the Fudzilla that the shipping Barcelona K10 is a stoning B2
revision but a few independent sources have confirmed that Barcelona
Opterons 23xx will come as BA chips. Well AMD folks were wrong as B2
wont be ready till Q4.
The BA revision is improved and fixed
B1 revision that is suitable for mass production. AMD simply couldn't
launch the B1 revision as it was buggy. The infamous B1 had Errata
281 bug with horrible stream, integer and floating point unit
performance and BA fixes it.
The B2 comes in Q4 and it is likely to
save AMD's behind as it offers higher clock speeds of up to 3GHz and even higher.
So, the first Opteron 23xx at up to 2GHz
won't be exactly the greatest thing around but at least it's a start.
