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End Of the Road for Duron

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there's-still-time-for-one-more dept.

yorgasor writes: "AMD announced that their Duron processor will no longer be produced near the end of this year. They plan on focusing all of their CPU production energy on Athlons and Hammers. The Register has more about it."

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  1. Let's be clear here... by cdipierr · · Score: 5, Informative

    AMD did not officially announce that Duron is no more, they merely stated in their earnings conference call that by the end of the year they expect to be producing nothing but Hammer & Athlon.

    The Hammer will be the performance processor while the Athlon will be the value processor. They were also quick to point out that by that point it will actually be cheaper for them to make Athlons than it is for them to make the current Duron and that those Athlons will be available for equivilent to Duron prices now without the Duron limitations (in other words, full L2 cache, etc.)

    With that said...like all conference calls of this nature, it was forward looking and merely states their plans, not necessarily fact.