Hmmm, I think I'm leaning toward the rumors of Barton w/ X86-64 I've been hearing about. Until this week, it sounded like Barton was gonna be scrapped for the value line in favor of the smaller die of the Duron at the low end. Now they want to kill the Duron and make Barton the low end? It only makes sense financially if they are gonna be adding something really really cool to it to make it a more attractive product at the low end. Otherwise, it would make a hell of a lot more sense to just keep making Durons as cheap as possible to increase the margin of their value CPUs. As a value CPU, the peformance isn't usually as important as the price to OEMs, which is where AMD needs to score some wins to keep maintaining market share.