As we read at EBN, AMD President Hector Ruiz thinks introducing new Athlon CPUs with working frequencies over 1.2GHz, because the current eldest 1.2GHz Athlon looks quite good compared to the fastest Pentium 4 models available in the today’s market. Here is a quote:

AMD President Hector Ruiz told a Morgan Stanley Dean Witter investment seminar that the current 1.1-GHz and 1.2-GHz Athlon processors outperformed the Intel Pentium 4 1.5-GHz systems in PC WorldBench 2000 tests.

Nevrtheless, Mr. Ruiz did present an updated AMD roadmap that showed its next generation Palomino MPU with clock rates greater than 1.2-GHz will enter production for desktops and mobile this quarter. We dare suppose that AMD is waiting for the new Pentium 4 1.7GHz to come out.
Unfortunately, Mr. Ruiz didn’t mention anything else concerning the desktop processors. Other than that, things remain the same: 0.13-micron Athlon processor called Thoroughbred will sample in Q4 2001 and a value segment Duron version called Appaloosa will sample in Q1 2002. We do know all these things already...