It has been quite a while since AMD launched a truly new CPU core architecture. It was way back in September of 2003 that the first "K8" based desktop processors arrived in the form of the single-core ...

There's no question the channel is eager to get its hands on Advanced Micro Devices' first quad-core x86 microprocessor. Monday's belated launch of the long-awaited server chip code-named Barcelona ...

AMD in also introducing a few enhancements with the Barcelona core designed to improve virtualization performance. The new AMD-V instructions in Barcelona offer hardware acceleration of shadow paging, ...