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Duron Arrives In Volume
News AMD Monday announced volume shipments of its new low-cost processor, Duron, which competes with Intel's Celeron in the sub-£600 PC market. As reported last week by ZDNet UK, Duron is available immediately in speeds of 700MHz, 650MHz and 600MHz.
[June 19, 2000, 10:09]
AMD Cuts Prices On Athlon, Duron
News AMD cut prices on Friday for its Athlon XP and Duron processors for both desktop and notebook PCs. AMD's biggest price reductions of the week came on its mobile Duron chip. The price on AMD's 1.3GHz mobile Duron was sliced by 10 percent, from $134...
[July 29, 2002, 10:12]
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. A faster Duron chip, running at 800MHz, will join it, sources said.
[October 5, 2000, 8:09]
AMD Boosts Duron
News On Monday, the chipmaker will usher in a 1.1GHz Duron processor for the value segment of the PC market. The chip will match the speed of Intel's 1.1GHz Celeron, but benchmark testers have stated that the Duron could be a better overall value.
[October 1, 2001, 11:26]
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's Duron Coming Next Week
News AMD is expected to announce volume shipments of its new low-cost processor, Duron, next week. Last week the chip maker said Duron had begun shipping to manufacturers in limited quantities. That is because the K6-2 processor maxed out at 550MHz...
[June 16, 2000, 15:29]
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'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 is based on the core technology of Athlon, AMD's latest chip architecture.
[June 20, 2000, 8:55]
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]
AMD Revives Duron For Budget Push
News Advanced Micro Devices has brought its Duron chip back from the dead and will probably extend the life of its Athlon XP chip, in an attempt to take back market share in the budget-PC market. The chipmaker confirmed on Monday that it has begun...
[August 27, 2003, 10:05]
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]
AMD Revs Up Athlon 4 And Duron Chips
News AMD on Monday gave its Athlon 4 and Duron chips a performance boost. The chipmaker announced a 1.1GHz Athlon 4 and a 900MHz Duron -- both for notebook PCs -- and said Compaq Computer will offer the new mobile chips in its Presario 1200 line.
[August 21, 2001, 9:09]
Latest Duron Runs At 850MHz
News As expected, Monday marks the official launch of AMD's latest low-cost processor, Duron, running at 850MHz. New low-cost chipsets for Duron have also started to arrive from companies such as Via Technologies, making it less expensive for...
[January 8, 2001, 10:08]
AMD Unveils Pumped-up Duron
News Advanced Micro Devices has released a 900MHz version of its Duron processor to try to expand its lead in the budget chip market. The Duron, a less-expensive version of AMD's Athlon processor, got off to a slow start when it debuted last year but...
[April 3, 2001, 8:09]
AMD Rolls Out Duron Chip For Portables
News 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. Duron is a lower-cost derivative of AMD's Athlon chip.
[January 17, 2001, 11:29]
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. The chip was formerly code-named Spitfire. The processor will be positioned against larger...
[April 27, 2000, 9:36]
AMD To Build Singapore Testing Lab
News AMD said the new facility reflects increasing demand for chips such as Athlon and Duron, which compete with Intel's dominant Pentium and Celeron. The expansion of AMD's Singapore operations is an investment in the facilities and resources which...
[February 27, 2001, 11:43]
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]
AMD Ratchets Up Mobile Chip Speeds
News Advanced Micro Devices is offering more oomph for low-priced notebooks with two new mobile Duron chips. The chipmaker on Wednesday introduced new mobile Duron chips clocking in at 1.1GHz and 1.2GHz. However, the Duron line offers power management...
[January 31, 2002, 6:31]
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]
