Thanks NTCompatible for the heads up on this review. X-bit labs has posted a review on AMD's Duron 1.0GHz and 1.1GHz CPUs.
For a relatively long period of time AMD, which tries to compete with Intel not only in the performance CPU market, but also in the value PC sector, couldn't represent any real threat for the rival even despite its progressive architectures. The failures in the value PC market had to do basically with the absence of Socket A chipsets, which could allow building really low-cost systems. However, it never meant that AMD didn't try to win a part of the market from Intel Celeron processors. Right on the contrary, AMD tried several different methods here. If they couldn't boast the lowest cost of the systems on Duron processors, then the performance was their trump. The company repositioned their value CPUs as the best low-cost solution for performance systems. That is why from the very beginning AMD Duron family had always been ahead of Intel Celeron in terms of core clock frequencies as well as in terms of performance, defeating the competitor working at the same clock frequency. It is due to this particular tactics as well as to low processor costs that AMD Duron managed to win a significant part of the market.
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