2.3 to 2.7 really isn't anything to get excited about..... even the 20% boost in IPC on the surface would seem to show that the new cpu's may be able to outperform intel clock for clock by around 3% or so and that won't be enough to make up for the clock speed deficit.

The fact that it is socket F, HT 1.0 and a low power consuption most likely means that these new CPUs are for OEMs and for upgrading server farms or even super computers based on older Opterons.

The reason they don't use HT3 is because there are no available server chipset that support it.
nVidia and Broadcom are the sole suppliers of Opteron chipsets and those don't support HT3.
AMD is going to release it's own chipset mid-2009. These will support HT3 and in the same timeframe AMD will release Opterons with HT3 support.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_800_chipset_series

HyperTransport 1.0 (max frequency: 800MHz, 2001 technology) makes no sense, there's gotta be a mistake in Digitimes' article. Even current 65nm Opterons use HyperTransport 3.0 (max: 2.6GHz).

HT 3.0 vs. HT 3.1 (max: 3.2GHz) would make more sense.

Higher clock speeds!!
Roar!!

This sounds realistic. If it actually goes like this, it'll be the first time in a long time that AMD launched a on a new process tech at a higher clock than its predecessor on older tech. Go 45nm K10!

Launches usually equal little availability. More like a presentation than a "launch"