David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 5/16/07 wrote:
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>This article will bring together all the existing information on Barcelona, AMD's
>next generation design, into a single place, discussing the system aspects and microarchitecture
>of Barcelona as well as the circuit design challenges and performance.
>
>AMD's run of good luck started in 2003 and ended in 2006, when Intel released the
>Core 2 and grabbed the performance and efficiency crowns. This put AMD, yet again,
>into a tight corner, with only one way out. Of course, that's a situation that's
>familiar to AMD. Again, the engineers at AMD have delivered the goods - taking
>an excellent product, and conservatively extending and enhancing it to produce a
>better one. Barcelona will certainly give Intel a run for their money, and will
>probably dominate HPC and lead for MP servers.
>
>http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT051607033728
>
>I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at AMD that I've talked to
>about Barcelona. This article took a lot of effort, going back and forth with
>PR, and various engineers. Without their help, I wouldn't be able to write this excellent article.
>
>DK

Good article. Thanks!

Is this a typo?

"The northbridge and L3 cache compose 75% of the die..."

In the micrograph, it looks like a lot less.