The announcement comes from AMD at Sunnyvale (CA), that AMD will launch the new processor on September 11th, 2007. AMD said, he confirmed that will begin shipping Barcelona processors in August. The New Processors for the servers and workstations will be ready in September.

AMD continue the announchement that AMD will be release the processors with TDP 95 watt as well as low power versions 65 watt of the processor in August. The clock speeds will be as high as 2.0 GHz. Some sources told that these processors will be available on 2.4 and 2.5GHz.

The new processors can increase the performance up to 70% on certain database applications and up to 40% on certain floating point applications. AMD said, the next upcoming higher frequency processors are expected to significantly add to this performance advantage.