Duron is AMD's first processor for budget PCs that takes advantage of an advanced chip design, or "microarchitecture, " that was unveiled last year for its higher-performance Athlon processor.
Every year, processor giant Intel throws a big budget party for itself and a few thousand developers in the glass and steel Moscone Center West conference center in San Francisco.
In the absence of a multi-billion-dollar research budget and the necessary permissions, however, their ships have sailed only through the processor of a computer.