Barcelona, the server processor based on AMD's next-generation K10 architecture, may come a couple of months later than planned, according to a report by DigiTimes. The sources noted that AMD has informed them that the introduction of Barcelona will be delayed until August or September, instead of the originally planned June. However, the sources also noted that this schedule is still subject to change. The Barcelona CPU samples they have currently are not the final versions and bugs are still being discovered, they added. Meanwhile, when asked to confirm or deny the rumors, AMD told DigiTimes that the Barcelona launch schedule will "be in line with its previous officially announced schedule" - i.e. the middle of this year.

If this is true, this can only be bad for AMD. With Intel's very attractive pricing of it's Core 2, which will only get cheaper, and people (myself included) will be flocking to these, grabbing a Core 2 quad for pretty cheap. Of course, when AMD finally releases Barcelona, and even if does beat the Core2 significantly, not many people are gonna buy it, because they all ready have quad cores, that they picked up. Why else would Intel be making these huge price cuts? ...