For instance, it suddenly occurred to me: why we supposed that Duron family is to die? Mr. Sanders said it? And maybe he meant the discontinuance of the current Durons (i.e. with 64KB L2 cache and Spitfire/Morgan core), and not the end of the products under "Duron" brand name? Then the whole picture looks totally different.

Suppose that in the end of the year, Duron processors will move to Thoroughbred or Barton core (which used to be considered Athlon cores), and Athlon XP – to ClawHammer core (Opteron will move to SledgeHammer as we told you here). I think everything seems pretty logical now. The Duron will stay and the positioning for different markets will remain valid for AMD CPUs. Finally, if this thing worked for Intel (moving Celeron to Pentium III core), why can’t it work for AMD?