On September 10 2007 AMD launched Opteron 23xx based on the “Barcelona Core”. AMD will be releasing Desktop Processors based on Barcelona somewhere near December 2007, They call it “AMD PHENOM”. Well AnandTech tested the New Barcelona and Pitched it against the recently released Intel Xenon based on New “Harpertown” here’s a link of the article
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3099
