Why are DURONS so cheap??

[TechyJono]

Apart from the less cache on the Duron compared to the T'Bird and Athlon why are Durons so much cheaper?

 

[RoadRuner]

because they are slower. less cache, lower speeds, smaller die = greater yield. greater yield = great profit line, passed on to us.

they also dump on the prices to compete with intel celeron.


tbird 700's are pretty cheap too.

 

[Maverick2002]

ill try to keep this short:

its called supply and demand

 

[TuffGuy]

even simpler... to take customers away from intel. gain market share.

 

[DaddyG]

Mav,

Can't really agree that its about supply and demand. Major OEMs have not implemented Duron systems yet. (IBM has and so has Micron). When low cost, integrated mobos become available, demand by the big OEMs (Compaq, H.P Gateway etc) will be ten fold what it is today.

 

[BlackIguana]

yep everyone here has good points...basically what it comes down to is that AMD has a good fab process, therefore they are getting good yields, which means lower costs. Also of course AMD is still playing 2nd fiddle to crapzilla, and are trying to grab as much market share as they can. What can i say, they got me in! But all their chips are so cheap, if you arent eating at the soup kitchen you might wanna grab a tbird and oc the shiznit out of it

 

[Peter]

Unlike Celeron vs. P-III which share the exact same silicon (with the Celerons then getting crippled to 66 MHz bus and half the L2 cache), the Duron die is actually different from the Athlon's. It's physically smaller, giving more chips per silicon platter, and better yields. And it's a fresh new CPU core that has been _designed_ for high speed grades to yield well, again unlike Intel who still tweak and wrestle ye olde PentiumPro core to unknown heights. Need I say 1.13GHz disaster?

Regards, Peter