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AMD Revives Duron For Budget Push
News In April of last year, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz said the Duron would be phased out by the end of 2002. Although AMD has only recently announced the new Duron chips, McCarron said there was an increase in Duron sales in the second quarter.
[August 27, 2003, 10:05]
AMD Boosts Duron
News AMD's 1.4GHz Athlon, for instance, is being advertised as $111 to $125, while the 1GHz Duron can be purchased for less than $80. On Monday, the chipmaker will usher in a 1.1GHz Duron processor for the value segment of the PC market.
[October 1, 2001, 11:26]
AMD's Duron Coming Next Week
News AMD is expected to announce volume shipments of its new low-cost processor, Duron, next week. Duron will represent a renewed launch into the value space for AMD, bringing Athlon core architecture into the market for cheap PCs.
[June 16, 2000, 15:29]
AMD's Duron Completes Ambitious Line-up
News AMD Monday launched its latest assault on Intel's low-cost Celeron processor, announcing the Duron processor is available in full production volumes. Duron bulks up AMD's offerings in the value market, an area it has neglected lately in favour of...
[June 20, 2000, 8:55]
AMD Rolls Out Duron Chip For Portables
News Duron is a lower-cost derivative of AMD's Athlon chip. AMD officials offered a mea culpa and an explanation, saying the mobile Duron was inadvertently left off of the company's processor roadmap distributed at the Comdex trade show in November.
[January 17, 2001, 11:29]
AMD Unveils Pumped-up Duron
News The Duron, a less-expensive version of AMD's Athlon processor, got off to a slow start when it debuted last year but can now be found in consumer and home-office PCs from a number of major manufacturers.
[April 3, 2001, 8:09]
AMD Readies New Athlon, Duron Chips
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is keeping up the pressure on chip rival Intel AMD will shortly introduce faster Athlon and Duron chips for desktop PCs. For lower-cost AMD systems, AMD is expected to introduce an 800MHz Duron chip, along with the...
[October 5, 2000, 8:09]
News Burst: AMD Unveils 750MHz Duron
News Microprocessor maker AMD took the wraps of a new 750MHz version of its budget Duron microprocessor Tuesday targeting cost-conscious home and business users. PC manufacturers IBM and Compaq also confirmed Tuesday their intention to stock systems...
[September 5, 2000, 7:47]
News Burst: AMD Launches Duron Brand, Unveils Corvette
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Thursday unveiled the brand name it has chosen for its next generation of low-cost microprocessors for consumer PCs: Duron. This week AMD has also revealed it will launch a new mobile processor in the second half of...
[April 27, 2000, 9:36]
AMD Unveils 750MHz Duron
News Microprocessor maker AMD unveiled a new 750MHz Duron Tuesday, targeting cost-conscious home and business users. The Duron was launched by AMD in June to rejuvenate its budget chip range, previously catered to by the defunct K6.
[September 5, 2000, 11:28]
Tiny, Micron To Use AMD Chips
News AMD has won over one of Britain's last Intel-only strongholds with OEM Tiny introducing Athlon and Duron processors to its line of PCs. We are pleased to introduce the AMD Duron processor into our product range because we believe that it offers the...
[September 25, 2000, 15:47]
AMD Cuts Prices, Preps Notebook Athlon
News After price cuts by rival Intel over the weekend, AMD cut the prices of its Athlon and Duron chips for desktops by around 20 percent this week. An 800MHz Intel Celeron at retail can be found for around $120 (£82), while the equivalent AMD Duron...
[March 7, 2001, 8:14]
Latest Duron Runs At 850MHz
News As expected, Monday marks the official launch of AMD's latest low-cost processor, Duron, running at 850MHz. Duron is AMD's answer to Intel's value-oriented Celeron processor, and is designed for PCs costing less than $1,000 (about £680).
[January 8, 2001, 10:08]
Athlon 4 And Duron Ship In Laptops
News AMD announced late on Tuesday that its Athlon 4 and Duron mobile processor will be used in new laptops from Fujitsu, NEC and Sony, bolstering its plans to do battle with Intel in the mobile PC market.
[May 23, 2001, 16:49]
AMD Squeezes Athlon 4 Into Notebooks
News AMD has officially launched its flagship Athlon and Duron processors for laptop computers. Our new mobile AMD Athlon 4 and new mobile AMD Duron processors have been designed with features specific to the mobile market, and like all of our...
[May 14, 2001, 9:26]
For AMD, The Chips Just Keep On Coming
News It comes closely after AMD's 1.1GHz Duron, which launched on 1 October. Though current new desktop Duron products from major PC makers are scarce -- probably because companies like Compaq Computer and Hewlett-Packard are juggling model lineups...
[November 15, 2001, 16:43]
AMD Readies Revved-up Chips
News The chipmaker, as expected, will announce its 1.4GHz desktop Athlon processor and a new 950MHz Duron chip next week at the Computex trade show in Taiwan, sources familiar with AMD's plans said. Meanwhile, the 950MHz Duron chip is AMD's third Duron...
[June 4, 2001, 9:29]
AMD Renews Cheap Chip Attack
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is set to renew its focus on the "value" PC market with next month's release of Duron, a repackaging of its core Athlon chip technology with a few tricks to make it cheaper to manufacture.
[May 22, 2000, 15:03]
AMD Names Low-cost Processor Duron
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Thursday unveiled the brand name it has chosen for its next generation of low-cost microprocessors for consumer PCs: Duron. AMD said Duron was chosen to convey a "workhorse" image.
[April 27, 2000, 9:50]
AMD To Phase Out Durons By End Of Year
News AMD will phase out its budget Duron processors by the end of the year as part of the release of the upcoming Hammer chips. Chief executive Jerry Sanders and president Hector Ruiz, who will become AMD's chief executive next Thursday, laid out the...
[April 19, 2002, 9:59]
