Intel Celeron - Meet AMD's Duron
In an effort to provide consumers with a high quality, low priced processor, Advanced Micro Devices today introduced its newest processor, the Duron. Coming this summer at speeds faster than the top-of-the-line K6-2, which peaked out at 550MHz, the Duron will be available in sub-$1000 PCs.
A child of the Athlon processor, the Duron offers lower clock speeds and lower L2 cache, and will use Socket A technology to attach to the motherboard. It also features a lower 200MHz bus speed and 128KB on-die cache, and is built on AMD's 0.18 micron manufacturing process.
AMD also renamed its next-generation mobile processor previously named Mustang to Corvette, although nothing concerning the processor has changed.
The Duron processor will sell in ranges of 500MHz to 700MHz and at prices between $75 and $175 USD. For more information visit Advanced Micro Devices.