AMD Announces 900MHz AMD Duron™ Processor,
Raising Performance for Everyday Home, Business
Computing
--Compaq among manufacturers to offer newest AMD
Duron™ processor--
SUNNYVALE, CA--APRIL 2, 2001--AMD today announced the availability of the 900MHz AMD Duron™ processor, its highest performance AMD Duron processor to date. Designed to meet the needs--today and tomorrow--of value-conscious home and office desktop computer users, the 900MHz AMD Duron processor enhances AMD's processor lineup, which delivers a full spectrum of innovative solutions.
"AMD Duron processor-based systems provide up to a 30 percent performance advantage over Celeron processor-based systems at like processor speeds," said Pat Moorhead, vice president of Marketing for AMD. "Both business and home users will appreciate the capabilities they'll get with the new 900MHz AMD Duron processor. Businesses will find that the 900MHz AMD Duron processor's optimized design and scalability deliver outstanding performance for office productivity applications. Home users will find that the 900MHz AMD Duron processor provides exciting multimedia entertainment and excellent personal productivity solutions. In both environments, the AMD Duron processor-based system is far and away the best solution for value-conscious buyers."
"We are pleased to offer the 900MHz AMD Duron processor with our Presario 5000 Series," said Brett Faulk, Director of Retail Desktop Product Marketing at Compaq Computer Corporation. "Compaq Presario home PCs powered by AMD processors continue to provide best-in-class value and incredible performance for work or play."
Systems powered by 900MHz AMD Duron processors are available in North America and Europe through configure-to-order programs. In addition to Compaq, systems are available from numerous companies worldwide, including Time, Tiny and MAXDATA, among others.
Also, on April 6, the nation's third-largest home shopping network, ValueVision (Nasdaq: VVTV), will begin offering 900MHz AMD Duron processor-based systems to its 43 million viewers as part of the V2 Premier system.
"We are pleased to offer this system, powered by the 900MHz AMD Duron processor, to our viewers," said Steven Goldsmith, SVP and GMM of ValueVision. "Our customers demand quality as well as ease in purchasing. With the AMD Duron processor, they'll get a powerful, yet everyday computer at a great price that will serve them well at home or the office."
The AMD Duron processor line was developed with mainstream computing in mind. The widespread availability of UMA (Unified Memory Architecture) integrated graphics chipsets, which remove the need for standalone graphics cards in PCs, provides rich configurations while reducing graphics costs.
Additionally, AMD Athlon™ and AMD Duron processors use Socket A infrastructure, giving commercial customers a stable and reliable platform, lowering the total cost of ownership. With UMA graphics and Socket A infrastructure, AMD Duron processors set the basis for everyday business productivity.
Pricing
The 900MHz, 850MHz, and 800MHz
AMD Duron processors are priced at $129, $111, and $90 respectively, each
in 1,000-unit quantities.
About the AMD Duron™ Processor
The AMD
Duron processor is a derivative of the award-winning AMD Athlon processor
and is designed to provide an optimized solution for value conscious
business and home users. Employing an innovative design, the AMD Duron
processor features a sophisticated cache architecture with 192KB of total
on-chip cache, a high-speed 200MHz front-side bus, and a superscalar
floating point unit with enhanced 3DNow!™ technology.
The AMD Duron processor is among the AMD products that have received an ENERGYSTAR® Certificate of Recognition from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. Products with the ENERGYSTAR® label are designed to use less energy and help protect the environment.
The AMD Duron processor offers value-conscious buyers access to technology and performance that stands out among other processors in its class. It reflects AMD's 30 years of design and manufacturing expertise and sales of more than 150 million PC processors. AMD Duron processors are manufactured on AMD's 0.18 micron process technology in Fab 25, Austin, Texas.