Farewell, Duron. Hello, Athlon FX.
That’s the name AMD will adopt for its future low-end processors, if unnamed sources cited by DigiTimes are anything to go by.
The Athlon FX will be based on the Thorton core, essentially a version of the top-end Athlon XP’s Barton core with half the cache: 256KB instead of 512KB.
Somebody in marketing finally realized how stupid Duron sounded. Tech geeks have known that since day 1. Move along.