A PC processor - AMD's budget chip, cheaper than the Athlon but also less powerful.

the official name of AMD's low cost Athlon variant processor. Previous to announcement was known by the code name of Spitfire.

The AMD Duron was an x86-compatible computer processor manufactured by AMD. It was released on June 19, 2000 as a low-cost alternative to AMD's own Athlon processor and the Pentium III and Celeron processor lines from rival Intel. The Duron was discontinued in 2004 and succeeded by the Sempron.