the orginal duron at .13 was codenamed APPALOOSA
the t-bred is the 256K L2 ATHLON out now...
combine the 2 code names and u get APPLEBRED
Actually, you would get AppalBred not AppleBred. If any of this is real and AMD really does name it AppleBred, then I'll <i>know</i> that what little is left of their marketing department is now eating magic mushrooms.
It's ten times worse than the name of Thorton (the bastard child of Thoroughbred and Barton).
And by the sounds of it, <i>both</i> AppalBred and Thorton will exist. AppalBred is lowest FSB with lowest cache and Thorton is midrange FSB with midrange cache, which leaves Barton with the high FSB and largest cache.
And this <i>might</i> actually be a good move for AMD <i>if</i> they can alter their price points to match so that their prices will range as broadly as the performance of these chips will.
Otherwise there would really be no point to any of it. :\
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