Review: AMD Duron

Roadmap

How will the story go on? We expect to see Athlon and Duron versions with higher clock rates later this year. Which markets the Athlon and the Duron target is also clear (c. f. the following figure).

AMD's in-house roadmap shows that their high-end processor (code name: Mustang) will be due by the end of 2000. This CPU should be the future Athlon Ultra, which is equipped with a very large L2 cache and which will take on Intel's Xeon in the workstation and server segments. Moreover, the "Corvette" will be rolled out as an Athlon for notebooks.