This article only shows that the real processors are done by AMD.

That green tint is darker then I imagined fastpunk, maybe it won't overtake Penryn and or it will be blown away by Penryn.

Joz says:

this thing looks like its gona suck for overclockers ane other hardcore people. imo ,

1. the way it looks like k10 clocks each core up/down is gona make overclocking a bitch, unless it can be disabled.

2. it looks like the branch prediction is gona be low...not a good thing. I think they should work on that more then dynamic core clocking.

3. I have concluded, that the K10, may be able to hold out IPC wise agianst the current Conore...but I doubt its gona be the killer that AMD hopes for. if im wrong, im wrong, but AMD, either get it into the market and 3rd party testers, or I suggest you work on improving the K8 like Intel improved the on the Pentium III to make Core.

Brendan, mate. Read my post again, but slowly this time so you can think about what you are reading. I said: "Maybe it will NOT overtake Penryn, maybe it will blow it away, lets wait and see." So that means that K10 could be better than Penryn, or it could be worst. Saying that makes me a fanboy? Maybe your glasses are a bit too dark...

Why does it strangely feels like R600 launch all over again?

Late to the party and no benchmark leaks, problems with ramping up chips with high enough clock to beat the competition, and resorting to launch a product that cannot beat the competitiions top performer instantly

Yea I have seen that picture of that rig AMD showed off with what they claim was a barcelona quad core but unless they have those kinda chips in volumes its not gonna help them keeping people away from buying intel quads that are alreary running at high clocks/can be overclocked over 3GHZ.

Remember back when Conroe was about to launch? Intel leaked benchies of their new design all over the net. Yes that is right when you are about to have a winner on the market you do that kind of thing to win over enthusiasts and keep them from buying your comptetion's product, specially when you have been beaten down by the competition for a good while and need to win the customers'/enthusiaists' trust back. Kinda like what Intel had to put their P4's end of life bad reputation behind them and like how now AMD needs to do the same to win over potential custs.

Dont you find it strange that AMD is not leaking barcelona's great performance numbers even when they are awfully close to the release date? At least for the equally clocked Barcelona vs Core 2 Qs?

To me seems like dejavu. Exactly like R600. So much hope and high expectations but in the end it couldnt score "a sound and clear win" although much was promised and much trust everyone had because of the architectural achievments its design had.

But I am not certainly hoping for something like that to happen. Last chance AMD dont waste it. Though I guess not much can be changed at this stage before the initial launch.