AMD today announced the introduction of their 1.3Ghz Duron CPU. It's priced at $118 in 1000-unit quantities, so you will probably find it online for under a 100 dollars. Two reviews are already available, scroll down to the hardware reviews.

There is an AMD roadmap overview on The Inquirer showing what we can expect Desktop processor-wise this year. Thoroughbred and Appaloosa will find their way to consumers in the second and third quarter of this year.

Not sure how legit these are, but here's some AMD Clawhammer benchmarks showing off performance of the next-gen AMD CPU. Thanks HardOCP

The Inquirer has a few details on upcoming Athlon XP CPUs based on "reliable sources". We'll be seeing a XP 2200+ this quarter, running at 1800Mhz which still uses .18 micron technology. Then, in Q2, AMD will finally release the new XP using .13 micron technology, the XP 2500+. According to The Inquirer it seems likely the on die cache might be higher than the 256k currently on the XP CPUs and so along with additional gates and a better design it should be quite a bit faster.

AMD didn't have a great last quarter in 2001, but they beat analyst estimates. AMD had quarterly sales of $951.9 million and lost $15.8 million which is about 5 cents a share, while analysts had predicted an 18 cents a share loss. AMD also expects a Q1 2002 loss.

ZDNet is reporting that AMD is doing the happy dance, with increased market share in pretty much all areas. AMD is now in 27% of U.S. PCs, 54% of Japanese PCs and 49% of European PCs, with those being PCs in the consumer market.

AMD today released the 1.2Ghz Duron, matching the speed of Intel's 1.2Ghz Celeron which was released a while ago. Don't really see how much this is gonna save since a regular 1.2Ghz Athlon is dirt cheap already.

AMD has announced their newest mobile CPUs, the 1.2Ghz Athlon 4 and 950mhz Duron. As you can see, AMD still states the actual speed in the mobile market.

Here's some general stuff talking about AMD and their future plans with Laptops, servers and Hammer (64bit). They are going mostly mobile in 2002 and just hoping to hold their ground on desktops.

CNET is reporting that AMD will be using factories from other companies to produce its processors starting 2003. About a quarter of AMD processors might come from these factories by that time, according to CEO Jerry Sanders. AMD will still continue to build its own factories, but two new ones aren't due until 2005.

AnandTech has a review of the Athlon 1900+ CPU that's being released today. Of course, the 1800+ (1.53Ghz) was already beating the fastest P4 in most benchmarks, but now it's beating it even more at 1.6Ghz, even in the Quake 3 benchmark which until now was always the Pentium 4's saving grace.

I see on Tech-Report that a new AMD heat video has been released, showing that AMD's newest processors can run without a heatsink for a while before failing, and can also start just fine again after the heatsink is reattached. Tom's Hardware had recently released a video showing a Pentium4 running fine for a while without a heatsink, while the Athlon started smoking almost instantly without one.

If you're looking for an Athlon motherboard with VIA's latest chipset, the KT266A, but don't know which one to get, AnandTech helps out. They have posted an "initial roundup" of three KT266A motherboards that have been released. Those would be the EPoX EP-8KHA+, MSI K7T266 Pro2-R and the Shuttle AK31.

Anand Tech is the latest with an article about the AMD Hammer. The K7 architecture was AMD's most succesful architecture yet, and Anand looks if they can repeat that with their Hammer tech.

In order to stifle a few rumors we've been getting about AthlonXP recalls, HardOCP got a hold of an AMD rep who stated very clearly that no AthlonXP CPUs have been recalled anywhere and production is ramping up at all facilities.