Intel plans
to launch Xeons E5405 based on 45 nanometre Penryn generation of processors and
according to current plans 2GHz version with four cores, will sell for $204 at
launch.
This means
that AMD won’t be able to price its Barcelona
at much more than this price as side by side these two CPUs should have a very
similar price.
We know
that K10 and its server codename Barcelona
are faster than Core 2 Quad generation in clock to clock comparison but Xeon
E5405 is based on a new refreshed Quad core that has some secrets such as SSE4
and some other things.
If AMD
wants to make much more it has to be significantly faster in clock to clock comparison than E5405 and we believe AMD has a chance to beat Yorkfield /
Harpertown in Virtualization.
Barcelona cannot be much more
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