June 5th AMD will announce 600, 650 and 700Mhz Durons as well as: 700, 750, 800, 850, 900, 950 and 1Ghz Thunderbirds.
Since the core for Duron and TBird are the same I would assume that all those low cost Duron have the capability to be overclocked to the speeds of TBird.
However with a socket we don't have the "magic golden finger" to overclock our CPUs. Hopefully Abit and ASUS will have great overclockable boards that can take these lowcost Durons to their full potential!
Anyone knows the die size of the Timna? My expectation is that it should be very large since it's basically a Cu-mine 128 with an embedded i810e. I think the mfg cost of the Timna should be double the Cu-mine 128, but the pricing from Intel is only US$102 for 600MHz and US$140 for 667MHz. I don't see the economy for Intel to "waste" wafers on this non-profit CPU that probably no one will use. For low-end a Cyrix III or AMD K6 coupled with an all-in-one chipset is still a lower cost than a Timna.
Intel also plan to phase out the Celeron in favor for Timna by Q1'01 according to the latest roadmap.
Fortunately for Intel the Armador will make the Willy affordable, previously this CPU was out of my radarscreen due to the expensive RDR.