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Barcelona wafer pictures at CeBIT

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It turns out that AMD has been producing Barcelona wafers for a while now. We thought you'd be very interested in the pictures that The Inquirer got for everyone that couldn't catch a plane to CeBIT in Germany.


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OMG! These pics are like Geek Porn! Keep 'em coming guys. :cool:
 
oooh, pwettty
 
Its like expensive artwork. I wish i could buy that wafer and use it as a centerpiece.
 
That is beautiful...I never seen a cpu wafer. How many chips can you get off of that? 30?
 
.... thats a collection of wafers alrite.. when you look at them directly it looks like as if a hologram was printed!
 
wats that in the pic exacrtly

what is a wafer
 
Am I the only one that noticed it says "Greyhound Quad Core 65nm" ?
Are they changing the name from "Barcelona" to "Greyhound" ?
 
its prolly the 12xx socket opterons..
 
Am I the only one that noticed it says "Greyhound Quad Core 65nm" ?
Are they changing the name from "Barcelona" to "Greyhound" ?

Methinks that Barcelona is the dual core version, and Greyhound is the quad core version.
 
methinks greyhound is the code name and barcelona the final name :)
 
OMG! These pics are like Geek Porn! Keep 'em coming guys. :cool:


LOL yeah i agree very nice, Anyone.. ideas on performance ? or we still got a wait a while before we get any info on that :ohwell: ??
 
oh dear god i'm salivating.....

lol
geek porn = geeks doing it? :nutkick:

exactly. ever hear of world of whorecraft? :laugh: :D
 
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